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06/08/1959 Thriller, Adventure 2h 17m
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It's a deadly game of "tag" and Cary Grant is "it"!

Overview

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

  1. Alfred Hitchcock

    Director

  2. Ernest Lehman

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Cary Grant

    Roger Thornhill

  2. Eva Marie Saint

    Eve Kendall

  3. James Mason

    Phillip Vandamm

  4. Jessie Royce Landis

    Clara Thornhill

  5. Leo G. Carroll

    Professor

  6. Josephine Hutchinson

    Mrs. Townsend

  7. Philip Ober

    Lester Townsend

  8. Martin Landau

    Leonard

  9. Adam Williams

    Valerian

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak
Written by Wuchak on 2019-12-26
***It has its points of interest, but any 60’s Bond flick is a better choice***

When an ad executive in Manhattan (Gary Cooper) is mistaken for a government agent by a foreign spy & his cronies (James Mason, et al.) he finds himself a fugitive traveling by train to Chicago wherein he meets a woman that seems to have his favor (Eva Marie Saint). After a curious encounter with a crop dusting plane everything culminates at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota.

"North by Northwest" (1959) is an adventure/thriller by Hitchcock with a huge reputation. It obviously influenced the James Bond flicks o...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$4,000,000.00

Revenue
$13,275,000.00

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