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North By Northwest
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- Released
- 22/08/2003
- DVD Region
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2 (UK, Western Europe, Japan)
Also plays on multi-region DVD players
What region is right for me? - Film and TV Genre
- Action, General, Thriller
Description
NORTH BY NORTHWEST is a suspense thriller that finds Cary Grant in the role of Roger Thornhill, a Manhattan advertising executive mistaken for a spy. Considered by many to be the prototypical pure action movie (creating the template for later James Bond and Indiana Jones films), the film is a cross-country roller-coaster ride with Alfred Hitchcock at the helm. The film is duly famous for several classic and indelible scenes, including the desert biplane encounter and the Mt. Rushmore climax. The original title was THE MAN IN LINCOLN'S NOSE, which was replaced by a reference to a line from William Shakespeare's HAMLET (in which Hamlet says, "I am but mad north-north-west."). The magical combination of Hitchcock and the debonair Grant--who made four wonderful films together--makes NORTH BY NORTHWEST a suspense-filled standout. When Thornhill finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, the world as he knows it comes to an end. Suddenly danger threatens as the hapless businessman is targeted as an American intelligence agent and set up as a killer. All of Thornhill's attempts to straighten things out only make matters worse--and soon the desperate man is on the run from murderous foreign operatives, the CIA, and the police. The supporting cast, including Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, and Martin Landau, is uniformly excellent.
Plot Synopsis
Hitchcock's first thriller for MGM in which a businessman is mistaken for a spy. He is pursued by enemy agents because he knows too much. Includes the original theatrical trailer.
Product Details
- Actors
- Cary Grant
- James Mason
- Eva Marie Saint
- Leo G. Carroll
- Martin Landau
- Josephine Hutchinson
- Jessie Royce Landis
- Philip Ober
- Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Audio Format
- DTS Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English
- Doby Digital 5.1 Surround - English
- English Audio Commentary Dolby Digital
- Mono - English
- Mono English
- Dolby Digital 5.1 English
- Mono French
- Subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
- English
- Disc Features
- Featurette
- Interactive Menus
- Making Of
- Scene Selection
- Theatrical Trailer
- Audio Commentary
- more »
- CD WOW! Sales Rank
- #40793
- Year of release
- 1959
- Aspect Ratio
- 1.85:1
- 1.78 Wide Screen
- Full Frame
- Film Rating (Australia)
- PG
- Number of Discs
- 1
- Film Rating (UK)
- PG
- Run Time (minutes)
- 131
- Language
- English
- Subtitle Language
- Arabic
- Dutch
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Spanish
- Media Format
- DVD-Video
- Colour System
- PAL
- Cast & Crew
- Merrill Pye (Art Director)
- Bernard Herrmann (Composer)
- Robert Burks (Director of Photography)
- George Tomasini (Editor)
- Alfred Hitchcock (Producer)
- William A. Horning (Production Designer)
- Ernest Lehman (Screenwriter)
Additional Information
- Contains mild violence and sex references
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