Overview:
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.| Status: | Released (1959-07-08) |
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| Awards: | Nominated for 3 Oscars. 9 wins & 7 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $66,728 |
| Screen: | Ernest Lehman |
| Productions: | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 2638: Cary Grant - Roger Thornhill
- 2639: Eva Marie Saint - Eve Kendall
- 2091: James Mason - Phillip Vandamm
- 2640: Jessie Royce Landis - Clara Thornhill
- 2642: Leo G. Carroll - Professor
- 2643: Josephine Hutchinson - Mrs. Townsend
- 2644: Philip Ober - Lester Townsend
Crews
- 2636: Alfred Hitchcock - Director - Directing
- 2636: Alfred Hitchcock - Producer - Production
- 1045: Bernard Herrmann - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 2654: Robert Burks - Director of Photography - Camera
- 2655: George Tomasini - Editor - Editing
- 2657: Robert F. Boyle - Production Design - Art
- 9060: William A. Horning - Art Direction - Art
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Reviews
DanDare
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North by Northwest is famous for its famous action sequences such as hanging on Mount Rushmore and the crop duster plane scene. Essentially it is a film of mistaken identity as advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is mistaken for George Kaplan by some bad guys in lea ....
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I hate user/critic review websites strictly because of movies like this. People will go see like, Gran Torino, be entertained, admire a couple symmetrical shots and smooth camera pans or whatever, and rate the thing a 4.5/5, 9/10, 95%, etc. But then there are movies that have a ten m ....
Continue reading ->John Chard
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Sometimes the truth does taste like a mouthful of worms. Roger O Thornhill is a harmless and amiable advertising executive who is absurdly mistaken for a government agent by a gang of ruthless spies. Forced to go out on the lam, Thornhill lurches from one perilous scenario to anot ....
Continue reading ->Wuchak
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***It has its points of interest, but any 60’s Bond flick is a better choice*** When an ad executive in Manhattan (Gary Cooper) is mistaken for a government agent by a foreign spy & his cronies (James Mason, et al.) he finds himself a fugitive traveling by train to Chicago wherein ....
Continue reading ->James
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Not one time did I think “This is good enough to deserve being on his (Hitchcock’s) filmography.
Continue reading ->James
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Not one time did I think “This is good enough to deserve being on his (Hitchcock’s) filmography.
Continue reading ->CinemaSerf
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"Thornhill" (Cary Grant) is your typically fast-talking advertising executive who is meeting some folks for a drink when he is mistaken for a "Mr. Caplan". Whisked off at gunpoint to meet "Vandamm" (James Mason) and his henchman "Leonard" (Martin Landau) his protestations of innocenc ....
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