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North By Northwest (1959),
Directors: Alfred Hitchcock, rated Approved
The Master of
Suspense presents a 2000-mile chase across America!
  Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie
Royce Landis, Martin Landau, Leo G. Carroll, Edward Platt
DML Rating:
★★★★★★★★★★
- perfect
"I've got a job, a
secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that
depend upon me,
and I don't intend to disappoint them all by
getting myself slightly killed." - Roger Thornhill
Why watch this?
Cary Grant is superb as a mistaken man forced to survive a
nasty situation.
Plot Summary:
Manhattan advertising executive Roger Thornhill is mistakenly
identified as a government agent named George Kaplan by foreign
spies. He is thrust into a dangerous world of intrigue, pursued
across the country by the spies and the police who believe him
to be a murderer. As he tries to unravel the mystery and clear
his name, he encounters a beautiful, enigmatic woman whose
allegiances are unclear.
Dad's Preview:
I keep coming back
to this Hitchcock classic. In the ultimate case of mistaken identity,
Roger Thornhill, an ordinary
advertising executive, finds himself pursued by murderous
henchmen, dodging a crop-dusting bi-plane attack, and scaling
the heights of Mt. Rushmore! It's tense and tightly
written, with superb dialogue. This film works because of
Cary Grant, who, at the time, was at the top of his game in Hollywood.
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