Story Line
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
“It's a deadly game of "tag" and Cary Grant is "it"!”
Top Cast
Cary Grant
Roger Thornhill
Eva Marie Saint
Eve Kendall
James Mason
Phillip Vandamm
Jessie Royce Landis
Clara Thornhill
Leo G. Carroll
Professor
Josephine Hutchinson
Mrs. Townsend
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Rating
8.0/ 10
Release Date
1959-08-06
Runtime
2h 17m
Genres
ThrillerAdventure
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User Reviews (8)
DanDare
7/10
•5/20/2017North 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 Geo...
tmdb47633491
9/10
•4/7/2018I 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 ...
John Chard
10/10
•4/22/2019Sometimes 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 ...
Wuchak
6/10
•12/26/2019***It has its points of interest, but any 60’s Bond flick is a better choice***
When an ad executive in Manhattan (Gary Cooper) is mistaken for a government agent by a foreign spy & his cronies (James Mason, et al.) he finds himself a fugitive tra...