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Hitchcock's first thriller for MGM in which a businessman is mistaken for a spy. He is pursued by enemy agents because he knows too much. Includes the original theatrical trailer.

Product Identifiers

ProducerAlfred Hitchcock

EAN5051892123747

eBay Product ID (ePID)21048562816

Product Key Features

ActorEva Marie Saint, Cary Grant, Martin Landau, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Philip Ober, James Mason, Josephine Hutchinson

Film/TV TitleNorth by Northwest

DirectorAlfred Hitchcock

LanguageEnglish

Run Time136 Mins

Release Year2013

FormatBlu-ray

FeaturesSteelbook\Ultra Violet Digital Copy (Expires 27.01.2015)

GenreThriller, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

CertificatePG

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

ComposerBernard Herrmann

Production DesignerWilliam A. Horning

Additional InformationNORTH BY NORTHWEST is a suspense thriller that finds Cary Grant in the role of Roger Thornhill, a Manhattan advertising executive mistaken for a spy. Considered by many to be the prototypical pure action movie (creating the template for later James Bond and Indiana Jones films), the film is a cross-country roller-coaster ride with Alfred Hitchcock at the helm. The film is duly famous for several classic and indelible scenes, including the desert biplane encounter and the Mt. Rushmore climax. The original title was THE MAN IN LINCOLN'S NOSE, which was replaced by a reference to a line from William Shakespeare's HAMLET (in which Hamlet says, "I am but mad north-north-west."). The magical combination of Hitchcock and the debonair Grant--who made four wonderful films together--makes NORTH BY NORTHWEST a suspense-filled standout.<BR>When Thornhill finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, the world as he knows it comes to an end. Suddenly danger threatens as the hapless businessman is targeted as an American intelligence agent and set up as a killer. All of Thornhill's attempts to straighten things out only make matters worse--and soon the desperate man is on the run from murderous foreign operatives, the CIA, and the police. The supporting cast, including Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, and Martin Landau, is uniformly excellent.

ReviewsTotal Film - ...NORTH BY NORTHWEST is sequence after sequence of breathlessly exciting and amusing entertainment..., Entertainment Weekly - ...The master's greatest toy..., Premiere - ...NORTH BY NORTHWEST is the paragon for every action caper that's followed..., USA Today - ...One of Alfred Hitchcock's most durable entertainments...

ScreenwriterErnest Lehman

Art DirectorMerrill Pye

Sound sourceDolby Digital

EditorGeorge Tomasini

Movie/TV TitleNorth By Northwest

Director of PhotographyRobert Burks

Consumer AdviceContains mild violence and sex references