North by Northwest
Movie (1959)
Adventure, Thriller, Mystery
In Collection
#1140
0*
DivX
136 mins
IMDB

Cary Grant Roger O. Thornhill
Eva Marie Saint Eve Kendall
James Mason Phillip Vandamm
Jessie Royce Landis Clara Thornhill
Leo G. Carroll The Professor
Josephine Hutchinson Mrs. Townsend
Philip Ober Lester Townsend
Martin Landau Leonard
Adam Williams Valerian
Edward Platt Victor Larrabee

Director Alfred Hitchcock
Producer Alfred Hitchcock
Herbert Coleman
Writer Ernest Lehman
Cinematography Robert Burks
Musician Bernard Herrmann

A case of mistaken identity taken to the extreme when witty and charming advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) unwittingly falls in with a ruthless band of foreign spies. The head spy, Philip Vandamm (James Mason) insists that Thornhill is in fact, CIA agent George Kaplin. Unbeknownst to all, including Thornhill, Kaplin is a fictional agent that the CIA invented to bait and trap the spies. While the CIA is trying to figure out a way to get the spies off of Thornhill's tail, Thornhill is subjected to threats at gunpoint, a staged car crash of which he survives, a harrowing airplane chase, and a perilous pursuit across the faces of Mt. Rushmore. Of course, all of this wouldn't be half as interesting without a little love interest, a woman Thornhill meets during his adventures named Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint). But in a world where Hitchcock is king and calamity abounds, nothing and nobody is as they first seem.

Edition Details
Country USA
Language English
Region Region 1
No. of Disks/Tapes 1