Title: North by Northwest
Original Title: North by Northwest
Year: 1959
Info
- Country: USA
- Length: 136 Minutes (2 hours 16 min)
- Budget: €3,101,000
- Genre: Action Adventure Mystery
- Studios: Metro Goldwyn Mayer
- Distributor: Metro Goldwyn Mayer
- Age rating: PG (Parental guidance)
Release Dates
- UK: October 20 2017
- United States: August 06 1959
Plot
Roger O. Thornhill is an executive who is mistaken for a government agent named George Kaplan due to a misunderstanding. Three men take him to a mansion and interrogate him. They try to kill him, but unexpectedly, he escapes. However, when he goes to the police, no one believes him, but the terrorists will not stop chasing him, believing he is Kaplan. During his flight he meets a mysterious woman who helps him to escape. Meanwhile, Roger will begin to investigate by himself to discover who are these people that try to kill him, and who is the mysterious George Kaplan. The government knows the story of Roger, and they also have a plan. This is one of the most acclaimed films of director Alfred Hitchcock.
Cast
Director:
Roger O. Thornhill
Eve Kendall
Phillip Vandamm
Clara Thornhill
The Professor
Lester Townsend
Leonard
Videos
October 11 2017
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Trivia
The last time
This is the only film Alfred Hitchcock made for MGM.
James Stewart's disappointment
While filming 'Vertigo', Alfred Hitchcock described some of the plot of this project to frequent Hitchcock leading man and 'Vertigo' star James Stewart, who naturally assumed that the director meant to cast him in the Roger Thornhill role, and was eager to play it. Actually, Hitchcock wanted Cary Grant to play the role. By the time Hitchcock realized the misunderstanding, Stewart was so anxious to play Thornhill that rejecting him would have caused a great deal of disappointment. So Hitchcock delayed production on 'North by Northwest' until Stewart was already safely committed to filming Otto Preminger's 'Anatomy of a Murder' before "officially" offering him the role. Stewart had no choice; he had to turn down the offer, allowing Hitchcock to cast Grant, the actor he had wanted all along.
On the left
Thornhill appears on the left side of the screen for almost the entire movie.
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