North by Northwest

About North by Northwest

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

North by Northwest is a 1959 thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. At 137 minutes long, it arrived in August 1959.

The film is filed under on the run, cold war, espionage, and road movie.

Cary Grant stars as Roger Thornhill, Eva Marie Saint as Eve Kendall, James Mason as Phillip Vandamm, and Jessie Royce Landis as Clara Thornhill. The screenplay is by Ernest Lehman. It streams on Philo and YouTube TV in the United States.

The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Art of War, and The Fugitive make useful companions to North by Northwest, all filed under assassination and spy. TMDB voters put it at 8.0 out of 10 across 4,707 votes and it carries a G rating.