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1959

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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. Read more

Starring	Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Leo G. Carroll
Director	Alfred Hitchcock
Genres	Action/Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller

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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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  NORTH BY NORTHWEST is a suspense thriller that finds Cary Grant in the role of Roger Thornhill, a Manhattan advertising executive mistaken for a spy. Considered by many to be the prototypical pure action movie (creating the template for later James Bond and Indiana Jones films), the film is a cross-...

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