North By Northwest
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Movie Reviews of North By Northwest
Movie Review: The elegant thriller, as invented by Hitchcock
Summary: 5 Stars
When I first saw this movie, I wasn't worldly enough to appreciate the final shot (train plunging into tunnel). After all, I was only 12 years old. I wandered into a neighborhood theatre one afternoon and saw this picture, probably lured by the poster showing Cary Grant being chased by a biplane. This was when neighborhood movie houses showed big-screen movies on a big screen. It was real moviegoing then. The screens have gotten smaller and so have the movies.
I was enthralled from start to finished. I resolved to be suave & debonaire like Grant when I grew up. I missed the mark, by just a little. I thought Eva Marie Saint was the most beautiful creature I had ever laid eyes on. The scene where they meet in the dining car is amazing. Any fan of movie romance shouldn't miss it.
I think Sean Connery studied this movie when he got the James Bond part.
Movie Review: Murder. Espionage. Romance. Intrigue. Classic Thriller From The Master Of Suspense.
Summary: 5 Stars
What do you get when you combine Cary Grant, Academy Award winner Eva Marie Saint, veteran stage and film actor James Mason and a well-written script with murder, espionage, romance, intrigue & some of the greatest chase scenes in cinema history? Why, it's..."Elementary." You get "North By Northwest," of course. Pay attention to the movie from the beginning, otherwise you'll be lost in the complex and amazing labyrinth of the movie with one of the most-literally-cliffhanging scenes in film. Hitchcock was a master at his art, and with this corker of a suspense thriller, it's easy to see why he was named The Master Of Suspense. Martin Landau and Leo G. Carroll also star in this witty cat-and-mouse thriller. Everyone in the cast and crew was wonderful. If you haven't seen either this or any of Hitch's other movies, you're in for a real treat. This film is Not Rated.Movie Review: INTRODUCING ALFRED SERLING
Summary: 5 Stars
You're late for an afternoon cocktail when you're suddenly mistaken for a spy, who doesn't exist,and kidnapped. You soon find yourself in a rural mansion, with two thugs pumping pints of liquor down your throat. You somehow negotiate your way back to New York where a diplomat is knifed to death in your presence at the United Nations. You're blamed for the murder,but escape on the Chicago Limited, as a nationwide APB is issued for your arrest. Aboard the train you're befriended by a female double agent who first protects you from the police,then arranges your death the following afternoon in an Indiana cornfield beneath the wheels of a malevolent cropduster! All this in a little over an hour of viewing time.Absurd? Of course it is! And, there's plenty more to come. Just hang on for what a really great movie should be-entertainment at its best.
Movie Review: One of the best ever....
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is truly iconic. The look of the cityscape, the beehive activity depicted from the opening frames is classic. People use to dress in those days and they actually cared how they looked. Grant's suit set the standard for decades.
While this film is fantastic - from beginning to end, it angers me to see the lack of recognition over the last half-century for Bernard Herrmann's music. I've never heard a movie score so stimulating, from the moment the MGM lion leaves the screen to the ending scene - incredible.
Then it struck me: Philip Glass is a an out-in-out thief. He ripped Herrmann off - completely. Glass is a total fraud. Herrmann's composition and arrangement in this movie has been cannibalized and stolen by Glass in many of his supposed "classic" offerings. A true crime.
Movie Review: North By Northwest 1959
Summary: 5 Stars
Cary Grant (1904-1986) teams with director Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) for they fourth and final time in this superlative espionage caper judged one of the American Film Instutes Top-100 American Films and Spruced up with a NEW DIGITAL transfer and Remixed in DOLDY DIGITAL STEREO . He plays Manhattan advertising executive plunged into a realm of Spy ( James Mason 1909-1984 ) and countesy ( Eva Marie Saint (1924 - ) and variously abducted , framed a murder , chased and in another signature set pieces , Crop-dusted . He also holds on for dear life from the facial features of the Presidents on Mounth Rushmore (backlot sets were used ) But dont expect the master of suspense to leav star of audience hanging . A superb movie that take you thru America of 1959 , beautiful locations . High Quality transfer . Recommended Higly !