Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
A suave, succesful New York advertising executive finds himself, through a case of mistaken identity, embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder that takes him across the country to prove his innocence...( read more
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DVD Release Date: August 29, 2000
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September 25, 2009A classic, a lot of directors owe Hitchcock a great deal! The only thing I don't like about this film is Cary Grant, it?s a great film but not one of his best performances!
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August 28, 2009"War is hell Mr. Thornhill, even when it's a cold one."
A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.
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April 15, 2009Clearly a pre-cursor to the modern action thriller in the James Bond style. Despite the awful special effects (and colour) of the age making the action laughable, this is a gripping cold war spy thriller, with a twist.
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December 14, 2008North By Northwest is not an artistic masterpiece like Rear Window and Vertigo, but it is probably the most purely entertaining picture Hitchcock ever made. It's essentially a rehash of many of his earlier films, with a plot partially derived from The Thirty Nine Steps and the ve...( read more)
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August 13, 2008One of the longer Hitchcock films, Gary Grant is a comical character who finds himself being set up by agents for a number of crimes. This is an action packed film where Grant's character has to work hard to survive.
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October 6, 2009This is a great film by director Alfred Hitchcock. The story is about a New York advertising executive who gets mistaken for a man named Kaplan. They film has a great story that kept me interested the entire way through. Cary Grant is excellent as Thornhill. His charm and acting ...( read more)
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October 5, 2009This is a good suspenseful mystery with Cary Grant--I like it when they are climbing on Mount Rushmore and the President's noses. DVD.
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October 4, 2009Why were ugly and old men always the heroes in action films in the 30s-50s? James Stewart and Cary Grant didn't deserve to be the main characters all the time. So annoying. It was always them in action films in those times.
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October 1, 2009I have great respect for Hitchcock, my personal favourite of his films is Rear Window. I think some aspects of the film-making was so innovative and so perfect, it was inspiring. Psycho is his most famous and what I believe to be the scariest. But here is North by Northwest, whic...( read more)
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September 27, 2007Looks like they fixed it now. Seems like all they gotta do to begin with is go to the IMDb to get the info.
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November 19, 2006This movie was not released in 1999! can someone please fix this on the website? Under details, it says, "Released Oct. 22, 1999." It also says on the cover who this is directed by - Alfred Hitchcock. Don't tell me there's no inormation available...!
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