North By Northwest(Film,1959)

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Alfred Hitchcock's exhilarating and darkly comic thriller, starring Grant as the dashing ad-man who finds his life in peril when he's mistaken for a double agent by the sinister Mason. The crop-dusting and Mt Rushmore scenes are classics of suspense.Keywords: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Classic, Movie, Film, Movies, Films

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Directed by

Alfred Hitchcock

Written by

Ernest Lehman

Cast

Cary Grant	.... Roger O. Thornhill
Eva Marie Saint	.... Eve Kendall
James Mason	.... Phillip Vandamm
Jessie Royce Landis	.... Clara Thornhill
Leo G. Carroll	.... The Professor
Josephine Hutchinson	.... Handsome Woman
Philip Ober	.... Lester Townsend
Martin Landau	.... Leonard
Adam Williams	.... Valerian
Edward Platt	.... Victor Larrabee
Robert Ellenstein	.... Licht
Les Tremayne	.... Auctioneer
Philip Coolidge	.... Dr. Cross
Patrick McVey	.... Chicago police sergeant
Ed Binns	.... Capt. Junket