North by Northwest (1959)

Movie Details

Original Title North by Northwest

Original Language EN

Budget $4,000,000

Revenue $13,275,000

Status Released

Popularity 3.3

Cast

Cary Grant

Roger Thornhill

Popularity: 4.1

Eva Marie Saint

Eve Kendall

Popularity: 0.9

James Mason

Phillip Vandamm

Popularity: 1.1

Jessie Royce Landis

Clara Thornhill

Popularity: 0.2

Leo G. Carroll

Professor

Popularity: 2.1

Josephine Hutchinson

Mrs. Townsend

Popularity: 2.6

Philip Ober

Lester Townsend

Popularity: 6.5

Martin Landau

Leonard

Popularity: 0.9

Adam Williams

Valerian

Popularity: 4.5

Edward Platt

Victor Larrabee

Popularity: 0.4

Robert Ellenstein

Licht

Popularity: 1.5

Les Tremayne

Auctioneer

Popularity: 0.5

Key Crew

Director Alfred Hitchcock

Producer Alfred Hitchcock

Editor George Tomasini

Writer Ernest Lehman

Production

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Videos & Trailers

Cary Grant Outruns a Crop Duster | North by Northwest | TCM

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Movie Clip - Do Away With You

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Movie Clip - The Art of Survival

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Movie Clip - Crop Duster Chase

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Movie Clip - A Long Night

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Official Trailer 4K Ultra HD

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Keywords

new york city assassination undercover agent espionage spy cold war mistaken identity deception romance fugitive on the run advertising framed on the road government agent road movie framed for murder trains cold war era mount rushmore

Reviews from TMDB

DanDare 7/10

May 20, 2017

North by Northwest is famous for its famous action sequences such as hanging on Mount Rushmore and the crop duster plane scene. Essentially it is a film of mistaken identity as advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is mistaken for George Kaplan by some bad guys in league with a forei ... Read more

tmdb47633491 9/10

Apr 7, 2018

I hate user/critic review websites strictly because of movies like this. People will go see like, Gran Torino, be entertained, admire a couple symmetrical shots and smooth camera pans or whatever, and rate the thing a 4.5/5, 9/10, 95%, etc. But then there are movies that have a ten minute chase scen ... Read more

John Chard 10/10

Apr 22, 2019

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 surv ... Read more