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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 9780790799933 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0790799936 Item Dimensions: Label: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Languages: Manufacturer: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) MPN: D67099D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 07, 2004 Running Time: 136 minutes Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Theatrical Release Date: 1959 Editorial Review: Product Description: Cary Grant teams with director Alfred Hitchcock for the fourth and final time in this superlative espionage caper judged one of the American Film Institute's Top-100 American Films and spruced up with a new digital transfer and remixed Dolby Digital Stereo. Grant plays a Manhattan advertising executive plunged into a realm of spy (James Mason) and counterspy (Eva Marie Saint) and 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 (backlot sets were used). But don't expect the Master of Suspense to leave star or audience hanging.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 012569670990 Amazon.com essential video: A strong candidate for the most sheerly entertaining and enjoyable movie ever made by a Hollywood studio (with Citizen Kane, Only Angels Have Wings and Trouble in Paradise running neck and neck). Positioned between the much heavier and more profoundly disturbing Vertigo (1958) and the stark horror of Psycho (1960), North by Northwest (1959) is Alfred Hitchcock at his most effervescent in a romantic comedy-thriller that also features one of the definitive Cary Grant performances. Which is not to say that this is just "Hitchcock Lite"; seminal Hitchcock critic Robin Wood (in his book Hitchcock's Films Revisited) makes an airtight case for this glossy MGM production as one of The Master's "unbroken series of masterpieces from Vertigo to Marnie." It's a classic Hitchcock Wrong Man scenario: Grant is Roger O. Thornhill (initials ROT), an advertising executive who is mistaken by enemy spies for a U.S. undercover agent named George Kaplan. Convinced these sinister fellows (James Mason as the boss, and Martin Landau as his henchman) are trying to kill him, Roger flees and meets a sexy Stranger on a Train (Eva Marie Saint), with whom he engages in one of the longest, most convolutedly choreographed kisses in screen history. And, of course, there are the famous set pieces: the stabbing at the United Nations, the crop-duster plane attack in the cornfield (where a pedestrian has no place to hide), and the cliffhanger finale atop the stone faces of Mount Rushmore. Plus a sparkling Ernest Lehman script and that pulse-quickening Bernard Herrmann score. What more could a moviegoer possibly desire? --Jim Emerson Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Cary Grant goes to Mount Rushmore--not just for the sight-seeing!!XXXXX Movie`s hero: "My wives divorced me." Movie's heroine: "Why?" Hero: "They said I lived too dull a life." The above dialogue is found near the end of this classic suspense movie that is even today unparalleled in producing an optimal combination of plot, humour, action, mystery, and intrigue without resorting to clichés. It was directed by "The Master of Suspense," the great Alfred Hitchcock. Look for Hitchcock's characteristic brief cameo ... Read More Rating:  - Good thrillerThe addition of pretense can be a killer in a film. It is precisely the lack of such a quality that makes Alfred Hitchcock's two and a quarter hour long 1959 color thriller North By Northwest a better and more enjoyable film than his preceding film, Vertigo, even if the film comes nowhere near the excellence of his following film, Psycho. Whereas the two films that end in -o attempt to impose a deeper psychology into their screenplays, North By Northwest is a popcorn eaters gala pre-James Bondian ... Read More Rating: - Is this Roger Thornhill or Bond, James Bond?This 1959 Alfred Hitchcock film was the fourth and last "spy" film that he did with Cary Grant. The others are Suspicion (1941), Notorious (1946), and To Catch a Thief (1955). I realize that Hitchcock was a close friend of Albert Broccoli (James Bond films)and Cary Grant was the original pick by Albert Broccoli to play James Bond, but the character in this film, Roger Thornhill, reminded so much of James Bond, that I had a hard time trying to convince myself that this isn't a "Bond" film. ... Read More Rating:  - Slow start, but a great movie...I had a hard time understanding the whole plot of this story. Apparently, Cary Grant's character is mistaken for a spy and kidnapped by James Mason's character and his gang. But this "spy" doesn't even exist, and it's up to Grant to survive and get these guys. He gets chased by a crop duster, gets mistaken for a murderer when the man beside him at the United Nations gets stabbed, and goes across Mt. Rushmore with Eva Marie Saint's character, who plays a spy and his eventual ladylove. This is full of suspense, ... Read More Rating: - A truly enjoyable masterpiece...Mistaken by a couple of hired thugs for an international spy and innocent in the murder of a diplomat, Cary Grant (armed only with undeniable charms and seductive shape) flees across the most audacious places of the United States, pursued by appropriately menacing villains (led by suave cold-hearted head James Mason and his henchman young Martin Landau) and shadowed by government agents... Somewhere in between is the sophisticated, glamorous and mysterious femme fatale Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint), whose unpredictable ... Read More |
