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    North By Northwest (1959)

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    Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest is a blithely implausible chase thriller in which glibly feckless ad-man Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) becomes the object of a cross-country spy hunt when he is mistaken for a government agent – the mysterious “Mr Kaplan” – by a ruthless espionage organisation.

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    It’s packed with artful set pieces characteristic of Hitch, including Grant being pursued across the prairie by a crop-duster and a climax on Mount Rushmore – which prompted Hitchcock to suggest the film be called “The Man Who Sneezed in Lincoln’s Nose”.

    Eva Marie Saint smoulders sexily as Eve Kendall, and there’s a masterclass in silky villainy from James Mason and a young Martin Landau.

    In between the pursuit sequences, the two leads engage in frisky thrust-and-parry dialogue, as though they’d somehow wandered out of a romantic comedy into a big-budget thriller and can’t quite get their bearings.

    North by Northwest is Hitchcock in light, likeable mode. The fearsome and intimate malevolence of Psycho  (1960) was only a year away . . .

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

    Director
    Alfred Hitchcock

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