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Summary: it has everything
Review: This is truly a movie that has everything.It is suspensful, romantic, and hilarious(any scene with Cary Grant's mother).This is one of Hitchcock's best but is probably largely overshadowed by "Psycho", and the good but overrated "Vertigo". For a great,but unorthadox,double feature try watching this with Hitch's for gotten masterpiece "Rope"
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Summary: stunk
Review: This was horribl
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Summary: An Absolute Classic
Review: Poor Cary Grant- he never won an Oscar for any of his performances. He certainly deserved one for this masterpiece. I like many of Hitchcock's movies, but this is his best. It is thrilling, elaborate, and enthralling. Grant and Mason are perfect, and Saint is a very good seductress. "North By Northwest" has had loads of accolades heaped upon it, and it warrants all of them. Moreover, it is a testament that truly great films can be made with a minimum or total lack of violence, cursing, and sex.
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Summary: A masterpiece only Hitchcock could make!
Review: This is one of my favorite movies. I have seen it about a dozen times and it only gets better each time. Watch the little boy cover his ears in the background in the scene where Eva Marie Saint "shoots" Cary Grant. This is a must see movie if there ever was one!
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Summary: HITCHCOCK`S ONLY FOR MGM - A CLASSIC
Review: North By Noryhwest(1959) was Hitchcock`s last masterpiece concerning a man who had to prove his innocence(Others were Foreign Correspondent, The Man who Knew Too Much 1938 & 1955, Strangers on a Train and The Wrong Man). THIS was maybe his best on this theme. Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason and Martin Landau all excelled in their roles. Opening credits by Saul Bass, photography by Robert Burks and music by Bernard Herrmann also worth credit... North by Northwest, ranks with PSYCHO, THE BIRDS and MARNIE as my all-time favorite Hitchcock films...
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Summary: One of my favorite films of all time!
Review: This film starts with a bang--an unbelievable abduction through mistaken identity--and it's full speed ahead from there. All the famous scenes that have already been mentioned by the critics, plus some of my favorites: the suave way the "bad guys" make it look like Roger T. was lying or hallucinating about the night before (when they abducted and drugged him), the scene where he shaves with the tiniest razor, and my personal favorite--his wacky but clever behavior at the auction! I've seen this one about a half-dozen times and it's still entertaining!
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Summary: The most important American film of the 1950s
Review: Not only is this film well-executed in every detail, but it defines the action genre for the rest of the Century. In a sense, this is the first Bond film, with all the action sequences, surprise cutaways and fabulous style, women and cars. Our hero is a middle-aged, but fabulous, batchelor who is clearly a babe magnet. The "baddies" are a new class of ambiguous either-or characters, as well. And Eva Marie Saint as reformed spy? What could be better.The transition from the urbane and urban Mr. Thornhill to hunted animal in the Godforsaken Midwest presages James Bond at his best. The role of Mr. Hermann's fine score is not to be underestimated. Rarely has background music defined the sense of risk and tension the way it does in North by Northwest. Again, the high standards set by the film score may not have been matched even forty years later. Finally, this film demonstrates the versatility of Mr. Hitchcock's creativity. Stylistically, it has very little connection with the films that preceeded or followed it; it stands on its own in a very impressive life-long body of work by this director.
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Summary: Playful trip
Review: Like most of Hitchcock's films, this one has not stood the test of time particularly well. The fact that Grant is the same age as the woman who plays his mother is the least of this movie's problems. The dialogue is artificially witty, and the social morés of the day do not translate well today. In the end, this movie comes across as plain silly, sort of an old time Magnum PI, Hitchcock style. Frosting with almost no cake, enjoyable but no more than that.
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Summary: HIS BEST CHASER...
Review: It seems 2 me that Hitchcock sort of stole many elements from his pre-chaser-films and said: "Good-eeeeevening..... You think you have seen my best efforts, but I must unfortunately dissappoint you.....!" Indeed this is a neurotic and clastraphobic chaser and suspenser - maybe the BEST EVER - thanks 2 the talents of Ernest Lehman, Hitchcock himself, his crew and the entire cast. There are numerous highlights from this film; I prefer NOT 2 single out any of them in favour of others. This film belongs IN EVERY HOME:-)
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Summary: "Real bullets? That's not very sporting..."
Review: Slap yourself if you haven't seen this movie. Although not as complex as "Vertigo" or "Rear Window," this is Hitchcock at his most enjoyable. I can't even begin to count the number of contemporary action films that were infulenced by (and frequently rip off) this. The crop-duster scene continues to be possibly one of the best suspense scenes I've ever seen, and it was only done with a plane, an empty field, and Cary Grant. The cast is perfect, the script is full of surprises and funny in a smart kind of way that modern moviemaking just doesn't understand. James Mason just oozes evil charisma. So, how's the DVD? Incredible. I can't believe it ever looked this good, even on the big screen. The color separation is vivid and sharp, and I only noticed two or three imperfections in the print, which is amazing considering the age of this film. The stereo separation and noise reduction are great. Bernard Hermann's score, one of the most brilliant and propulsive I've ever heard, is absolutely transparent. And, of course, the stereo panning during the crop-duster sequence is spot-on. Oh yeah, and it includes the original theatrical trailer, as well as a mock commercial done by Hitchcock himself extolling the virtues of Mt. Rushmore as a tourist attraction!
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