North by Northwest, judged as one of the American Film Institute’s Top 100 American Films and recipient of three Academy Award nominations. You will love this movie.
Sure you might have seen it on TV–BUT, it needs to be experienced in a movie theater. Cary Grant teams with director Alfred Hitchcock for their fourth and final time in the superlative espionage caper.
A suave, successful New York advertising executive finds himself, through a case of mistaken identity, embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder that takes him across the country to prove his innocence to the police and get an evil crime syndicate, looking for a lost microfilm, off his tail.
Grant stars in one of Hitchcock’s greatest thrillers. While leaving New York’s Plaza Hotel, advertising executive Roger Thornhill has the misfortune of standing just as the name “George Kaplan” is paged — starting a lethal case of mistaken identity and a nonstop game of cat and mouse as he is pursued across North America by espionage agents trying to kill him… and by police who suspect him of murder. Pursued by spy and counterspy, Thornhill is variously abducted, framed for murder, chased and in another signature set piece, crop-dusted. He also holds on for dear life from the facial features of the Presidents on Mount Rushmore. It all added up to another box-office smash from the Master of Suspense.