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North by Northwest (1959)

08/06/1959Thriller, Adventure2h 16m
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It's a deadly game of "tag" and Cary Grant is "it"!

Overview

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Cary Grant

    Roger Thornhill

  2. Cast 1

    Eva Marie Saint

    Eve Kendall

  3. Cast 1

    James Mason

    Phillip Vandamm

  4. Cast 1

    Jessie Royce Landis

    Clara Thornhill

  5. Cast 1

    Leo G. Carroll

    Professor

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    Josephine Hutchinson

    Mrs. Townsend

  7. Cast 1

    Philip Ober

    Lester Townsend

  8. Cast 1

    Martin Landau

    Leonard

  9. Cast 1

    Adam Williams

    Valerian

Sometimes the truth does taste like a mouthful of worms. Roger O Thornhill is a harmless and amiable advertising executive who is absurdly mistaken for a government agent by a gang of ruthless spies. Forced to go out on the lam, Thornhill lurches from one perilous scenario to another. Can he survive to prove his innocence? Is the gorgeous blonde who is helping him really a friend? All will be revealed in Alfred Hitchcock's majestic thriller. If deconstructing it you find that this isn't a perfect Hitchcock movie, for it under uses James Mason's coolly vile Phillip Vandamm (which is a cr...