Thursday, October 13, 2022
North by Northwest - WB 20 Film Collection Thrillers
- Commentary: Loved it the first time I saw it, loved it upon seeing it again. Delightfully mysterious.
This movie is also full of famous "snap-shot scenes" (my moniker, by the way) that, no matter where or for what reason you see a snap shot from a particular scene, you not only recognize the movie immediately, even if it's not identified in context, but the snap shot, itself, elicits a review of the initial reaction you had when you first saw the scene.
Mount Rushmore, anyone?
Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Cary Grant Roger Thornhill Eva Marie Saint Eve Kendall James Mason Phillip Vandamm Jessie Royce Landis Clara Thornhill Leo G. Carroll The Professor Josephine Hutchinson Mrs. Townsend Philip Ober Lester Townsend Martin Landau Leonard Adam Williams Valerian Edward Platt Victor Larrabee Robert Ellenstein Licht Les Tremayne Auctioneer
Originally published in this journal on 081416.
Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
Release Date: 1959
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Labels: alfred-hitchcock, cary-grant, james-mason
