Directed by:
Alfred HitchcockScreenplay:
Ernest LehmanCinematography:
Robert BurksComposer:
Bernard HerrmannCast:
Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Josephine Hutchinson, Philip Ober, Martin Landau, Adam Williams, Les Tremayne (more)VOD (3)
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A suave, successful 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 to the police and get an evil crime syndicate, looking for a lost microfilm, off his tail. (official distributor synopsis)
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A brilliant thriller with the protagonist’s wonderfully elaborated paranoia, the logic of a conspiracy thriller worked out to the last detail, and last but not least, a nice dose of black-humored trivialization, through which Hitchcock ironically winks at the viewer every now and then. It’s formally impeccable (the cinematography belongs in textbooks!), the acting is spot on (Cary Grant delivering cool lines with icy calm and Eva Marie Saint as the femme fatale is absolutely amazing), and on top of that, the tension builds up to the fabulous ending on Mount Rushmore. A flawless film that reflects the image of one thing only - pure genius!
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Alfred Hitchcock as usual constructs the atmosphere perfectly, but even so, I was disappointed this time around. Roger's paranoia in the introduction meets all expectations (and clearly inspired David Fincher in The Game), but the premature climax comes with the cult scene of the crop-dusting plane. Afterwards, it just kinda weaves and weaves its webs until it finally reaches a characteristically suspenseful finale, which – after two hours of intrigue – simply isn't compelling enough.
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The most American, the most colourful, the longest, the most adventurous and in every way the most magnificent depiction of a falsely accused man on the run, a subject close to Hitchcock’s heart. Cary Grant is the most likable actor of his era, Eva Marie Saint is a beautiful and delicate professional, and everything is fantastically filmed and edited. The beautiful formalistic aspect is aided by the Oscar-winning production design, which plays the same role here as it did in Psycho and Vertigo, which is really saying something, given the adventure genre. In short, North by Northwest is a flawless film.
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The best Hitchcock I’ve seen so far! It only took ten minutes for me to be overcome by that feeling I get whenever I’m watching something exceptional, the joy that after so many films I can still come across one capable of thrilling me like a child. North by Northwest did that from the get go, and I followed the events on the screen almost without breathing until the end. 100%
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You don’t often see such an elaborate and still entertaining film, in which there is suspense, humor, romance, action and who know what else, without it getting in the way. Hitchcock doesn't wait for anything, he gets things right at the beginning and, with the help of the actors and Herrmann's predatory music, does whatever he wants with us for more than two hours. And we don't mind one bit.
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