Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Release: 1959
Running time: 131 minutes
North by Northwest is a supremely entertaining, often tongue-in-cheek espionage thriller. The film stars Cary Grant as a Manhattan advertising man, Roger O. Thornhill, who is kidnapped by a gang of spies led by Philip Vandamm (James Mason), who believe Thornhill is a CIA agent.
Thornhill escapes, but is pursued across the US by a seemingly conspiratorial group of spies, the police and the FBI, as he seeks to clear himself of a murder he did not commit. Along the way he gains the help of a mysterious and beautiful blonde woman, Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint). He also finds himself in the middle of some of the most memorable action scenes in all of cinema, including a brush with a crop-duster in a cornfield, and a climactic struggle on Mount Rushmore.
A brilliantly manipulative tale featuring mistaken identity, murder, mayhem, spies, counterspies, a femme fatale, and a domineering and unbelieving mother, North by Northwest is a masterwork by one of cinema’s greatest talents, working at the height of his powers.
(Some info taken from filmsite.org and imdb.com)
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