North by Northwest

North by Northwest
7.9

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Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Overview

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

North by Northwest
North by Northwest
North by Northwest
North by Northwest

Reviews (8)

  • DanDare (Rated: 7)

    North 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 George Kaplan by some bad guys in league with a forei...

  • tmdb47633491 (Rated: 9)

    I 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 there are movies that have a ten minute chase scen...

  • John Chard (Rated: 10)

    Sometimes 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 from one perilous scenario to another. Can he surv...

  • Wuchak (Rated: 6)

    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 traveling by train to Chicago wherein he meets a woma...

  • James (Rated: 7)

    Not one time did I think “This is good enough to deserve being on his (Hitchcock’s) filmography.

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