July 28, 1959 |
cinematography = Robert Burks |editing = George Tomasini | music = Bernard Herrmann |
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runtime = 136 min. |
language = English |
budget = US$ 4,000,000
}}North by Northwest (1959) is a suspense film starring Cary Grant, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and produced at MGM. The movies's world premiere took place in the San Sebastian International Film Festival. North by Northwest is a tale of mistaken identity, with an innocent man pursued across America by agents of a mysterious organization who want to stop his interference in their plans to smuggle out some microfilm (a classic MacGuffin).The film also stars Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Leo G. Carroll, and Martin Landau. The screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, who wanted to write "the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures." The film is one of several Hitchcock movies with a film score by Bernard Herrmann and features a famous title sequence by the graphic
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North by Northwest