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Overview
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Director:
Writer:
Ernest Lehman (written by)
Release Date:
17 September 1959 (Japan) more
Tagline:
Alfred Hitchcock takes you.... North by Northwest! more
Plot:
A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 3 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(52 articles)
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Blu-Ray Review: Alfred Hitchcock Makes Striking HD Debut With ‘North by Northwest’
(From HollywoodChicago.com. 11 November 2009, 2:06 PM, PST)
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From The Master of Suspense Came the Daddy of the Modern Adventure Thrillers more (364 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)
Additional Details
Also Known As:
Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (USA) (complete title)
Breathless (USA) (working title)
In a Northwesterly Direction (USA) (working title)
The Man in Lincoln's Nose (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
131 min
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Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System) | Dolby SR | Dolby Digital
Certification:
Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) (2000) | Canada:PG (Ontario) | UK:A (1959) | USA:Approved (PCA #19156) | USA:TV-G (TV rating) | Iceland:L | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | South Korea:12 | Netherlands:AL (DVD rating) | Netherlands:12 (re-rating) | Netherlands:12 (2008 re-release) | Brazil:14 | Argentina:13 | Australia:G (1959-1998) | Australia:PG | Chile:14 | Finland:K-16 | France:U | Germany:12 (re-rating) | Peru:14 | UK:PG | West Germany:16 (original rating) | Norway:16
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Jessie Royce Landis played Thornhill's (Cary Grant's) mother, yet she was only seven years older than he (according to the 'making of' on the DVD). more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: When Cary Grant leaves the train in Chicago, the Redcap uniform he is wearing is a perfect fit (if anything with the sleeves a little long). Yet when you see the man he got the uniform from, he is a very short little man whose clothes would never fit Grant, who of course is very tall. more
Quotes:
Leonard:
You surely would have suspected. Why else would you have decided not to tell Miss Kendall why our little treasure here has a belly full of microfilm?
Phillip Vandamm:
You seem to be trying to fill mine with rotten apples.
Leonard:
Sometimes the truth does taste like a mouthful of worms.
Phillip Vandamm:
Truth? I've heard nothing but innuendos.
Leonard:
Call it my women's intuition, if you will. But I've never trusted neatness. Neatness has always been the form of very deliberate planning.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in House of the Long Shadows (1983) more
Soundtrack:
It's a Most Unusual Day more
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What is the title "North by Northwest" supposed to mean?What is the twist in this movie?
Where is Hitchcock's cameo in this movie?
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Many feel this is Alfred Hitchcock's greatest American movie, and I agree! NORTH BY NORTHWEST is the Hitchcock film to end all Hitch films, with all his pet themes covered with maximum wit, panache, and suspense, as well as a romance between Cary Grant and a soignée Eva Marie Saint that's as tender as it is sexy. Grant has never been more engaging and dashing (literally and figuratively :-), though the smoothly villainous James Mason nearly out-suaves him. My husband and I have joked that if Mason had played Thornhill, the film would have been over in mere moments. With all due respect to Grant, if the imperious, unshakably confident Mason asked the Glen Cove police, "Do you honestly believe that this happened the way you think it did?" they would immediately reply, "No, sir, you must be right, you're free to go, sorry we bothered you." :-) Also boasts a great early performance by a reptilian young Martin Landau as Mason's possessive henchman, as well as one of Oscar nominee Ernest Lehman's best screenplays (in fact, he borrowed liberally from it for his script for the film version of THE PRIZE starring Paul Newman) and one of Bernard Herrmann's finest scores. Anybody who wants to write or direct a chase thriller should watch NORTH BY NORTHWEST first to see how it's done!