North by Northwest DVD, 1959

Advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is lunching in a restaurant with his mother when he mistakenly answers a page for one George Kaplan. He soon finds himself on the run across the country, being pursued by enemies of the government who are convinced that he is a secret agent. He finds a friend in Eve Kendall (Eve Marie Saint), who helps conceal him during a perilous train journey, but soon discovers that she is not all she seems.

Terrific locations, smart photography, feather-light performances and a gripping script, this is 1950s Hitchcock at his most confident and most manipulative. Features a breathtaking credit sequence too.

As conventional as this big-time Hollywood movie may have seemed to the new sensibility, it foresaw the political disquiet which often underwrote the 60s style revolut... more >

As conventional as this big-time Hollywood movie may have seemed to the new sensibility, it foresaw the political disquiet which often underwrote the 60s style revolution and which cropped up in Woody Allens early work and the conspiracy thrillers of Alan J. Pakula. < less

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