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North by Northwest

North by Northwest

ThrillerAdventure

7.965/10

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US

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en

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137 min

Release Date: 1959-08-06

Overview - Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Overview - Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

User Reviews

DanDare

DanDare

7/10

North by Northwest is famous for its famous action sequences such as hanging on Mount Rushmore and the crop duster plane scene. Essentially it is a film of mistaken identity as advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is mistaken for George Kaplan by some bad guys in league with a foreign power presumably Russian. The trouble is Kaplan is a made up operative created by the CIA to f...

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tmdb47633491

9/10

I hate user/critic review websites strictly because of movies like this. People will go see like, Gran Torino, be entertained, admire a couple symmetrical shots and smooth camera pans or whatever, and rate the thing a 4.5/5, 9/10, 95%, etc. But then there are movies that have a ten minute chase scene with Cary Grant scaling down Mount Rushmore, every second of which you're screaming at the screen....

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John Chard

John Chard

10/10

Sometimes the truth does taste like a mouthful of worms. Roger O Thornhill is a harmless and amiable advertising executive who is absurdly mistaken for a government agent by a gang of ruthless spies. Forced to go out on the lam, Thornhill lurches from one perilous scenario to another. Can he survive to prove his innocence? Is the gorgeous blonde who is helping him really a friend? All will be r...

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Wuchak

Wuchak

6/10

***It has its points of interest, but any 60’s Bond flick is a better choice*** When an ad executive in Manhattan (Gary Cooper) is mistaken for a government agent by a foreign spy & his cronies (James Mason, et al.) he finds himself a fugitive traveling by train to Chicago wherein he meets a woman that seems to have his favor (Eva Marie Saint). After a curious encounter with a crop dusting plan...

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James

James

7/10

Not one time did I think “This is good enough to deserve being on his (Hitchcock’s) filmography.

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James

James

7/10

Not one time did I think “This is good enough to deserve being on his (Hitchcock’s) filmography.

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

7/10

"Thornhill" (Cary Grant) is your typically fast-talking advertising executive who is meeting some folks for a drink when he is mistaken for a "Mr. Caplan". Whisked off at gunpoint to meet "Vandamm" (James Mason) and his henchman "Leonard" (Martin Landau) his protestations of innocence just get him pumped full of booze and put behind the wheel of a car, the likely suspect of a murder investigation....

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JPV852

JPV852

9/10

Seen this one a few times over the years and still is one of Hitchcock's best though personally Rear Window is still my favorite of his. Still, a great espionage thriller with solid performances from both Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint. **4.5/5**

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