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North by Northwest is a 1959 American spy thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason. [3] The screenplay was by Ernest Lehman , who wanted to write "the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures".
North by Northwest: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis. A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.
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- Action, Adventure, Mystery
- Alfred Hitchcock
- 1959-12-18
North by Northwest is a 1959 American spy thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason. The screenplay was by Ernest Lehman, who wanted to write "the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures".
- 136 min
- 36.8K
- The Alfred Hitchcock Project
Released Jul 17, 1959 2h 16m Mystery & Thriller. TRAILER for North by Northwest: Trailer 1. List. 97% Tomatometer 116 Reviews. 94% Audience Score 50,000+ Ratings. This classic suspense film finds ...
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- Cary Grant
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Mystery & Thriller
Jun 21, 2024 · North by Northwest, American suspense film, released in 1959, that is one of Alfred Hitchcock ’s most-entertaining movies. It was the fourth and last collaboration between the director and star Cary Grant. Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint in North by Northwest. Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint in North by Northwest (1959), directed by Alfred ...
- Lee Pfeiffer
North by Northwest set the tone for many of the subsequent spy films of the 1960s and was an influence on the "James Bond" series — the helicopter attack in From Russia With Love (1963) bears more than a passing resemblance to the "crop duster" sequence and the use of glamourous lead actresses and iconic locations and landmarks in the Bond films is arguably another reference to Hitchcock.
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Synopsis. Roger O. Thornhill, a twice-divorced Madison Avenue advertising executive (Cary Grant), is mistaken for "George Kaplan" when he summons a hotel bellhop who is paging Kaplan and is kidnapped by Valerian (Adam Williams) and Licht (Robert Ellenstein). The two take him to the house of Lester Townsend on Long Island.
