Film

North by Northwest 1959

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

  • Thriller, Adventure
  • 137 min
  • G

It's a deadly game of "tag" and Cary Grant is "it"!

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

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Classical in form, plot-driven, resolved and epic.

  • classical in formformally daring
  • character-ledplot-driven
  • resolvedopen-ended
  • intimateepic
  • effortlessdemanding

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