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Release Date: 1959

Cast: Eva Marie Saint, Josephine Hutchinson, Martin Landau, Adam Williams, Leo G. Carroll, Edward Platt, Philip Ober, Phillip Coolidge, Ken Lynch, Cary Grant, Jessie Royce Landis, Ed Binns ...MORE

Cast: Eva Marie Saint, Josephine Hutchinson, Martin Landau, Adam Williams, Leo G. Carroll, Edward Platt, Philip Ober, Phillip Coolidge, Ken Lynch, Cary Grant, Jessie Royce Landis, Ed Binns, Robert Ellenstein, Alfred Hitchcock, James Mason ...LESS

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North by Northwest is a 1959 American thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason. The screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, who wanted to write "the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures". North by Northwest is a tale of mistaken identity, with an innocent man pursued across the United States by agents of a mysterious organization who want to stop his interference in their plans to smuggle out microfilm containing government secrets. Author and journalist Nick Clooney praised Lehman's original story and sophisticated... MORE

North by Northwest is a 1959 American thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason. The screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, who wanted to write "the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures". North by Northwest is a tale of mistaken identity, with an innocent man pursued across the United States by agents of a mysterious organization who want to stop his interference in their plans to smuggle out microfilm containing government secrets. Author and journalist Nick Clooney praised Lehman's original story and sophisticated dialogue, calling the film "certainly Alfred Hitchcock's most stylish thriller, if not his best". This is one of several Hitchcock movies with a music score by Bernard Herrmann and features a memorable opening title sequence by graphic designer Saul Bass. This film is generally cited as the first to feature extended use of kinetic typography in its opening credits. For a discussion of the title, see below. Roger Thornhill, a twice-divorced Madison Avenue advertising executive (Cary Grant), is mistaken for "George Kaplan" when he summons a hotel bellhop who is paging Kaplan, and is kidnapped by Valerian LESS