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It's a deadly game of 'tag' and Cary Grant is 'it'...
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
North by Northwest
1959 Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
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Cary Grant Eva Marie Saint James Mason Jessie Royce Landis Leo G. Carroll Josephine Hutchinson Philip Ober Martin Landau Adam Williams Edward Platt Robert Ellenstein Les Tremayne Philip Coolidge Patrick McVey Edward Binns Ken Lynch Nora Marlowe Doreen Lang John Beradino Ned Glass Tol Avery Malcolm Atterbury Maudie Prickett Bess Flowers Stanley Adams Andy Albin Ernest Anderson Frank Wilcox Brandon Beach Show All…
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Intriga Internacional, De dood op de hielen, Север-северозапад, La mort aux trousses, Na sever severozápadní linkou, Menneskejagt, Con la muerte en los talones, Vaarallinen romanssi, Στη σκιά των τεσσάρων γιγάντων, Sjever-sjeverozapad, Észak, északnyugat, 북북서로 진로를 돌려라, На північ через північний захід, На север через северо-запад, Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, De Man Die Verdwijnen Moest, Intrigo internazionale, I sista minuten, Na sever severozápadnou dráhou, Der unsichtbare Dritte
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2 1/2 hours of almost fucking and then a train penis goes into a mountain vagina.
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roger didn't shower for like 4 days and he still got the girl? it's just not realistic
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North by Northwest is famous because of one scene. Now, that doesn't mean the rest of it is lacking, as it should be common knowledge of its solidified place in the canon of the greatest American films in the history of the cinema, but the zenith is found in a classic Hitchcock concept: the image of the pursuer and the pursued. Its famous sequence of a crop-duster aircraft leaping towards Cary Grant's Roger O. Thornhill in the Midwest countryside - bullets flying near his dives for survival - is constructed through the context of a world unknown: a place not designed for your color or creed or gender or social status. It is an environment, depicted via the…
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I love what Hitchcock does visually here. Also probably his silliest (that last cut is hilarious.) Isn't this essentially just The 39 Steps with more creative freedom? He even mentions the number 39.
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everyone talks about how Hitchcock was a revolutionary for being the first to show a flushing toilet in Psycho but nobody mentions how he invented being horny a year earlier in North by Northwest
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Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest features a spellbinding first half which makes terrific use of clever wit, elevated tension & elements of suspense but it is unfortunately marred by a lacklustre second half which bogs the story down with a dragged narrative and feels rather overlong in the end although it does have one spectacular sequence that will be etched in memory once it's seen.
One of the first films to lay down the foundations for modern action thrillers in Hollywood, North by Northwest is a thrilling tale of mistaken identity which concerns an innocent advertising executive who is mistaken for a government agent by an organisation of foreign spies and is pursued by them. The story covers his journey of…
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Horizontal meets vertical as the title and crisscrossing credits propose. Cary Grant commits the greatest of horizontal acts (swiping into a cab) and tells the man a lie he's a hero for his immobility. The rest of the film turns a cosmic joke on the star as he runs from East to West in the identity of a man of a shorter suit. The camera arcs in a circular dance as he faces James Mason, the short stature man pulling his weight through lean Martin Laundau, who pours a tall bottle into Grant. "It's so horribly sad...why is it I feel like laughing?" an agent exclaims after a top down shot against the UN makes Grant a small dot in…
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No longer my favorite movie of all time—it's just too weightless for that honor—but still the most nonstop fun the medium has ever produced. Somebody somewhere referred to it as the first James Bond movie, and while it's in some sense absurd to compare a professional secret agent out to save the world with an innocent ad exec just struggling to stay alive, there are enough superficial similarities to make one wish for a 007 adventure as consistently witty and blessedly lull-free. (Hot on the heels of Bardem's hammy work in Skyfall, I also appreciated the low-key, urbane menace James Mason brings to his role as chief baddie here. In general, the more bored and blithely unconcerned a villain…
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Part of Dastardly Difficult December: film nr.68
A benchmark in the action/adventure genre, crafted by one of cinema's masters.
I remembered next no to nothing from this film, apart from its iconic final sequence. It is therefore that I'm still reeling from being transported 50 years back and being swept along on this tale of mistaken identity, romance and espionage.
Hitchcock is of course know as the master of suspense, yet this is perhaps his least suspenseful film. It is, on the other hand, a very exciting adventure filled with the easy charm, class and simplicity of days gone by. I love the fact that practically from the get go, Hitchcock gives us one up on his protagonist. He understands…
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