Original Title: North by Northwest
Year: 1959
Genre:
Adventure, Thriller, Mystery
Category: Movie
IMDB Rating: 8,3 (DINO Rating: 9)
Country: USA
Language:
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Ernest Lehman
Composer: Bernard Herrmann
Producer: Herbert Coleman, Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Josephine Hutchinson, Philip Ober, Martin Landau, Adam Williams, Edward Platt, Robert Ellenstein, Les Tremayne, Philip Coolidge, Patrick McVey, Edward Binns, Ken Lynch, Stanley Adams, Andy Albin, Anne Anderson, Don Anderson, Ernest Anderson, Malcolm Atterbury, Tol Avery, Sam Bagley, Rama Bai, Frank Baker, Alex Ball, Baynes Barron, Brandon Beach, John Beradino, Sara Berner, Audrey Betz, Stephen Bolster, Boyd Cabeen, Steve Carruthers, Taggart Casey, Bill Catching, Bob Coe, David A. Cox, Walter Coy, Jimmy Cross, Lucille Curtis, Patricia Cutts, Jack Daly, John Damler, Lawrence Dobkin, Ken DuMain, Daniel Elam, Tommy Farrell, Jesslyn Fax, Adolph Faylauer, Bess Flowers, Josephine Forsberg, Sally Fraser, Paul Genge, Ned Glass, James Gonzalez, Tom Greenway, Robert Haines, Stuart Hall, Len Hendry, Alfred Hitchcock, Stuart Holmes, Hideo Inamura, Eugene Jackson, Bobby Johnson, Dick Johnstone, Sid Kane, Kenner G. Kemp, Madge Kennedy, Colin Kenny, Doreen Lang, Perk Lazelle, Larry Leverett, Carl M. Leviness, Caryl Lincoln, Alexander Lockwood, Frank Marlowe, Nora Marlowe, Tom Marshall, Thomas Martin, James McCallion, Maura McGiveney, Carl Milletaire, Hans Moebus, Howard Negley, Monty O'Grady, Henry O'Neill, Murray Pollack, Charles Postal, Maudie Prickett, Hugh Pryor, Anthony Redondo, Ralph Reed, Greg Rhinelander, Lili Rosson, John Roy, Cosmo Sardo, Jeffrey Sayre, Scott Seaton, Harry Seymour, Robert Shayne, Larry Sherman, Ami Silvestre, Doris Singh, Jeremy Slate, Olan Soule, Bert Spencer, Helen Spring, Harvey Stephens, Bert Stevens, Harry Strang, Joe Szorentini, Paul Togawa, Arthur Tovey, Dale Van Sickel, Ray Weaver, Susan Whitney, Frank Wilcox, Lloyd Williams, Robert B. Williams, Paula Winslowe, Wilson Wood, Carleton Young, Ernesto Zambrano
Description: Madison Avenue advertising man Roger Thornhill finds himself thrust into the world of spies when he is mistaken for a man by the name of George Kaplan. Foreign spy Philip Vandamm and his henchman Leonard try to eliminate him but when Thornhill tries to make sense of the case, he is framed for murder. Now on the run from the police, he manages to board the 20th Century Limited bound for Chicago where he meets a beautiful blond, Eve Kendall, who helps him to evade the authorities. His world is turned upside down yet again when he learns that Eve isn't the innocent bystander he thought she was. Not all is as it seems however, leading to a dramatic rescue and escape at the top of Mt. Rushmore.
Comments: A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies. ------- Madison Avenue advertising man Roger Thornhill finds himself thrust into the world of spies when he is mistaken for a man by the name of George Kaplan. Foreign spy Philip Vandamm and his henchman Leonard try to eliminate him but when Thornhill tries to make sense of the case, he is framed for murder. Now on the run from the police, he manages to board the 20th Century Limited bound for Chicago where he meets a beautiful blond, Eve Kendall, who helps him to evade the authorities. His world is turned upside down yet again when he learns that Eve isn't the innocent bystander he thought she was. Not all is as it seems however, leading to a dramatic rescue and escape at the top of Mt. Rushmore. ------- Manhattan advertising executive Roger Thornhill is already having a hectic day with a jammed packed schedule for its remainder. That schedule takes a turn when he is detained during a business lunch by two men he doesn't know who proceed to kidnap him. Unsure why anyone would want to kidnap him, he discovers the man behind the kidnapping, a Lester Townsend, believes him to be someone named George Kaplan. Townsend wants information from Kaplan, but is prepared to kill Kaplan with or without that information, Kaplan's death meant to look like an accident or suicide. Thornhill is eventually able to escape from his captors. While he does connect with the authorities who do not believe his story, Thornhill subsequently has to go on the run as he becomes implicated in a murder connected to he being Kaplan. As such, Thornhill has to find out what's going on on his own with whatever information he has on hand, most of it gleaned during his captivity: he being able to identify Townsend, his wife, their housekeeper, and three of the thugs working for Townsend; the address of Townsend's mansion where he was being held captive; and Kaplan's recent whereabouts and future movements in what seems to be some tour of the United States, those next two locations being Chicago, Illinois and Rapid City, South Dakota. In his travels in evading both Townsend's people and the authorities, Thornhill gets some willing assistance from a beautiful young blonde woman he meets, industrial designer Eve Kendall, whose help is despite she knowing who he is from the newspaper reports of him being wanted for murder. They eventually fall for each other. She, however, may have some undisclosed ulterior motive for helping him. All the while, Kaplan's people have been and are continuing to watch the proceedings from the sidelines, what they deciding to do largely to protect "Kaplan" from being discovered by "Townsend". ------- Middle-aged Madison Avenue advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill is mistaken for a government agent by a gang of spies. He gets involved in a series of misadventures and is pursued across the States by both the spies and the government while being helped by a beautiful blonde. ------- New York City advertising executive Roger Thornhill is kidnapped by a gang of spies led by Philip Vandamm, who believe Thornhill is C.I.A. Agent George Kaplan. Thornhill escapes, but must find Kaplan in order to clear himself of a murder it is believed he committed. Following Kaplan to Chicago as a fugitive from justice, Thornhill is helped by beautiful Eve Kendall. In Chicago, she delivers a message to Kaplan that almost costs Thornhill his life when he is chased across a cornfield by a crop-dusting plane.
Duration: 136 minutes (at 23.976 frames per second)
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Subtitles: English, Serbian, Croatian