DVD Special Features:
39 Minute Behind-the-Scenes Documentary Destination Hitchcock:
The Making of North By Northwest hosted by Eva Marie Saint and
featuring Martin Landau, Screenwriter Ernest Lehman, Patricia
Hitchcock and others involved in the film
Feature length audio commentary by Ernest Lehman
Music-only Audio Track showcasing Bernard Hermann's Score
Production Stills Gallery
TV Spot
Trailer
Interactive Menus
Scene Access
Language in Dolby Digital 5.1: English
Language in Mono: French
Subtitles: English, French, Italian, Dutch, Arabic, Spanish,
German, English for the hearing impaired.
From .co.uk
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A strong candidate for possibly the most entertaining and
enjoyable film ever made by a Hollywood studio, North by
Northwest is positioned between the much heavier and more
profoundly disturbing (
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horror of Psycho ( /exec/obidos/asin/B00004CZAT/%24%7B0%7D )
(1960). In the corpus of Alfred Hitchcock films it shows the
director at his most effervescent in a romantic comedy-thriller
that also features one of the definitive Cary Grant performances.
Which is not to say that this is just "Hitchcock Lite". It's a
classic Hitchcock Wrong Man scenario: Grant is Roger O Thornhill
(initials ROT), an advertising executive who is mistaken by enemy
spies for a US undercover agent named George Kan. Convinced
these sinister fellows (James Mason as the boss and Martin Landau
as his henchman) are trying to kill him, Roger flees and meets a
sexy Stranger on a Train (Eva Marie Saint), with whom he engages
in one of the longest, most convolutedly choreographed kisses in
screen history. And of course there are the famous set pieces:
the stabbing at the United Nations, the crop-duster plane attack
in the cornfield (where a pedestrian has no place to hide) and
the cliffhanger finale atop the stone faces of Rushmore.
With its sparkling Ernest Lehman script and that pulse-quickening
Bernard Herrmann score, what more could a filmgoer possibly
desire? --Jim Emerson, .com
On the DVD: This wide-screen print of the movie looks remarkably
fresh, preserving the vivid depth of the original's VistaVision
cinematography. The main extra feature is a new and entertaining
40-minute documentary hosted by Eva Marie Saint in which most of
the surviving cast and crew give their ins into the making
of the picture (we learn for example that canny Cary Grant
charged 15 cents per autograph). Screenwriter Ernest Lehman
provides an audio commentary and on a separate audio-only track
Bernard Herrmann's masterful score can be heard in its entirety.
There's also a stills gallery and trailers. --Mark Walker
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Synopsis
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North By Northwest is a suspense thriller that finds Cary Grant
as Roger Thornhill, a Manhattan advertising executive mistaken
for a set upas 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 the Back Cover
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Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is not a . And he's certainly no
murderer. Nevertheless, Thornhill's a wanted man: enemy agents
want him dead, the want him arrested, and a cool,
mysterious blonde (Eva Marie Saint) just plain wants him. A
victim of mistaken identity, Thornhill can't afford to make any
mistakes of his own - so he embarks on a death defying run for
his life. Relentlessly pursued by plane, train and automobile,
Thornhill's cross-country chase finally ends atop Mt.Rushmore
where, if he doesn't watch his step, he could be in for a
terrible fall. Nominated for three 1959 Academy Awards, Alfred
Hitchcock's North by Northwest is a masterful blend of suspense
and romance, one of the best and most thrilling movie adventures
ever created.
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