North by Northwest

Also Known As: Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest

Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Aspect Ratio: 1.75 : 1

Budget: $3,101,000

Full Cast: Cary Grant / Eva Marie Saint / James Mason / Jessie Royce Landis / Leo G. Carroll / Josephine Hutchinson / Philip Ober / Martin Landau / Adam Williams / Edward Platt / Robert Ellenstein / Les Tremayne / Philip Coolidge / Patrick McVey / Edward Binns / Ken Lynch / Stanley Adams / Andy Albin / Anne Anderson / Ernest Anderson / Malcolm Atterbury / Tol Avery / Baynes Barron / John Beradino / Stephen Bolster / Taggart Casey / Bill Catching / Bob Coe / Walter Coy / Jimmy Cross / Lucille Curtis / Patricia Cutts / Jack Daly / John Damler / Lawrence Dobkin / Tommy Farrell / Jesslyn Fax / Adolph Faylauer / Bess Flowers / Josephine Forsberg / Sally Fraser / Paul Genge / Ned Glass / Tom Greenway / Len Hendry / Alfred Hitchcock / Stuart Holmes / Eugene Jackson / Bobby Johnson / Sid Kane / Kenner G. Kemp / Madge Kennedy / Colin Kenny / Doreen Lang / Larry Leverett / Alexander Lockwood / Frank Marlowe / Nora Marlowe / Tom Marshall / James McCallion / Maura McGiveney / Carl Milletaire / Howard Negley / Charles Postal / Maudie Prickett / Hugh Pryor / Ralph Reed / Jeffrey Sayre / Harry Seymour / Robert Shayne / Doris Singh / Jeremy Slate / Olan Soule / Helen Spring / Harvey Stephens / Bert Stevens / Harry Strang / Arthur Tovey / Dale Van Sickel / Ray Weaver / Susan Whitney / Frank Wilcox / Lloyd Williams / Robert Williams / Paula Winslowe / Wilson Wood / Carleton Young

Cast and Character: Cary Grant as Roger O. Thornhill / Eva Marie Saint as Eve Kendall / James Mason as Phillip Vandamm / Jessie Royce Landis as Clara Thornhill / Leo G. Carroll as The Professor / Josephine Hutchinson as Mrs. Townsend / Philip Ober as Lester Townsend / Martin Landau as Leonard / Adam Williams as Valerian / Edward Platt as Victor Larrabee / Robert Ellenstein as Licht / Les Tremayne as Auctioneer / Philip Coolidge as Dr. Cross / Patrick McVey as Sergeant Flamm - Chicago Policeman / Edward Binns as Captain Junket

Color: Color

Countries: USA

Creators: n/A

Description: 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.

Directors: Alfred Hitchcock

Genres: Action / Adventure / Crime / Mystery / Thriller

Languages: English

Location: Bakersfield, California, USA

MPAA: Approved

Opening Weekend: n/A

Plot: Madison Avenue advertising man Roger Thornhill finds himself thrust into the world of spies when he is mistaken for a man by the name of George Kaplan. Foreign spy Philip Vandamm and his henchman Leonard try to eliminate him but when Thornhill tries to make sense of the case, he is framed for murder. Now on the run from the police, he manages to board the 20th Century Limited bound for Chicago where he meets a beautiful blond, Eve Kendall, who helps him to evade the authorities. His world is turned upside down yet again when he learns that Eve isn't the innocent bystander he thought she was. Not all is as it seems however, leading to a dramatic rescue and escape at the top of Mt. Rushmore.

Poster: posters/0053125.jpg

Rating: 8.5

Release Date: 26 September 1959 (Japan)

Runtime: 136 min

Seasons: n/A

Sound Mix: Mono / Dolby SR / Dolby Digital

Tagline: Alfred Hitchcock takes you.... North by Northwest!

Title: North by Northwest

Trailer:

Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053125/

Votes: 147,783

Writers: Ernest Lehman

Year: 1959

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