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Product Information
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
EAN7321900650168
eBay Product ID (ePID)3954522
Product Key Features
ActorEva Marie Saint, Cary Grant, Martin Landau, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Philip Ober, James Mason, Josephine Hutchinson
FeaturesTV Spot\Trailer\Still Gallery\Audio Commentary\Destination Hitchcock\The Making Of\Music only Track, Widescreen, Closed Caption, With Subtitles
GenreThriller, General
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
CertificatePG
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
ComposerBernard Herrmann
Art DirectorMerrill Pye
Dubbing LanguagesFrench
Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1 Surround\Mono
Director of PhotographyRobert Burks
Consumer AdviceContains mild violence and sex references
Hearing ImpairedEnglish
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...