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| Starring | Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Leo G. Carroll |
|---|---|
| Director | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller |
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An advertising executive is mistaken for a spy and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.
| Starring | Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Leo G. Carroll, Martin Landau, Josephine Hutchinson, Jessie Royce Landis, Philip Ober |
|---|---|
| Director | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 10 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 16 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 must-see movies, 100 Top Thrillers |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Released | DVD: 07 Jun 2004 Blu-ray: 16 Nov 2009 Production year: 1959 |
| Format | DVD |
This Hitchcock classic contains extra-generous helpings of the ingredients that make his films so unmissable. Action, intrigue, romance and comedy are blended throughout with consummate skill; the attack by the crop-dusting plane and the finale on Mount Rushmore are simply the icing on the cake. Rarely did Hitchcock have as much fun with his favourite innocent in peril theme or make such inventive use of famous landmarks. In his fourth and final collaboration with the Master of Suspense, Cary Grant is the personification of suaveness as he tackles a nest of enemy agents, led by a rather disengaged James Mason.
Delightful chase comedy-thriller with a touch of sex, a kind of compendium of its director's best work, with memories of The 39 Steps, Saboteur and Foreign Correspondent among others.
Hitchcock had already made most of his classic Paramount films (Vertigo, Rear Window) earlier in the 50s before creating North by Northwest. The result is one of the most pure Hitchcock films - concentrated storytelling with engaging characters. The film's final screen minute contains more plot than many directors manage to cram into ten.
Cary Grant is back after Jimmy Stewart was pensioned off as Hitch's leading man. He is completly at home as the smooth, charming advertising executive, caught up in events way beyond his control.
The Hitchcock obsession with stunning blonde actresses finds a home in Eva Marie Saint - introduced to us in one of cinema's most alluring seduction scenes. Confident, sexy and yet tantalisingly unavailable.
If you like film, and enjoy watching first class actors under the direction of a master story-teller, then this is for you.
One of those movies that everyone talks about and you always see scenes from on TV. The setting is very much of its time (cold war intrigue), but the action is relentless, the scenario surprisingly convincing (seeing as in the cold light of day it's pretty unbelievable) and the cinematography and score of real quality. It's not quite as tense as the 39 Steps, or as chilling as some of AH's other work but it's very definitely worth watching. Especially for set-pieces like the scene at the UN building and the great aerial shot which follows. Also for odd little quirks like the prominent role played by Grant's on-screen mother (played by Jessie Royce) - she's the first person his character turns to as the crisis unfolds - and Eve Kendall (Eva Maria Saint) claiming to be twenty six. In all, not quite a classic, but definitely a lot of fun. (If you enjoyed the recent Catch Me If You Can, you should definitely enjoy it.)
The Essential Guide to Alfred Hitchcock Born 1899, Leytonstone, England Died 1980, Bel Air, USA More books have been written about Alfred Hitchcock than any other filmmaker, alive or dead. He was the self-styled “master of suspense”. In a career that stretched to half a century, he directed more than 50 films – and rarely strayed from his favourite genre. The son of a grocer, and a devout Catholic, Hitchcock often attributed his fascination with (and fear of) the law,... Read more
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