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North by Northwest

North by Northwest is a 1959 American thriller film directed by and starring , Eva North by Northwest Marie Saint, and James Mason.[2] The screenplay was by Ernest Lehman, who wanted to write "the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures".[3]

North by Northwest is a tale of mistaken identity, with an innocent man pursued across the United States by agents of a mysterious organization trying to prevent him from blocking their plan to smuggle out microfilm which contains government secrets. This is one of several Hitchcock films which feature a music score by Bernard Herrmann and an opening title sequence by graphic designer Saul Bass, and it is generally cited as the first to feature extended use of kinetic typography in its opening credits.[4]

North by Northwest is listed among the canonical Hitchcock films of the 1950s and is often listed among the greatest films of all time.[5][6][7] It was selected in 1995 for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

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Plot Cast Production Filming Set design Theatrical release poster Costuming Editing and post-production Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Release Home media Produced by Alfred Reception Hitchcock Box office Written by Ernest Lehman Critical reception Starring Awards reception Cary Grant Themes and motifs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_by_Northwest 1/13 1/16/2019 North by Northwest - Wikipedia Influences Eva Marie Adaptations Saint See also James Mason References Jessie Royce External links Landis Music by Bernard Plot Herrmann Cinematography Robert Burks It is 1958. At a City hotel bar, two thugs looking for "George Kaplan" see a waiter calling his name; at the Edited by George same time advertising executive Roger Thornhill summons the waiter (to help send a telegram to his mother). Thornhill Tomasini is then mistaken for "George Kaplan" and is kidnapped. Thornhill is brought to the Long Island estate of Lester Production Townsend and is interrogated by spy Phillip Vandamm. Despite Thornhill denying he is George Kaplan, Vandamm Metro- company thinks he is lying and has his henchman Leonard arrange Thornhill's death in a staged drunken driving accident. Goldwyn- Thornhill miraculously manages to steer away from danger but is soon arrested for driving under the influence and is Mayer taken to the Glen Cove, New York police station. Distributed by Metro- Goldwyn- The next morning, Thornhill tries but fails to convince his mother and the police that he had been kidnapped and Mayer forcibly inebriated. Journeying to the scene of the crime with police, a woman at Townsend's home, presumed to be Release date July 28, 1959 Mrs. Townsend, says he showed up drunk at her dinner party. She also informs them that Townsend is a United Nations diplomat. While searching Kaplan's hotel room with his mother, Thornhill answers a phone call from the thugs who are Running time in the hotel lobby. He escapes and visits the U.N. General Assembly building to meet Townsend. He discovers that 136 minutes Townsend is not the man he met on Long Island, and that Townsend is a widower. As Thornhill questions Townsend, Country United States one of the thugs throws a knife, hitting Townsend in the back, killing him. Thornhill catches Townsend as he falls and Language English grabs the knife, giving the appearance that he murdered Townsend. A nearby photographer captures the crime and Budget $4,326,000[1] Thornhill flees. Thornhill attempts to find the real Kaplan. Box office $9.8 million[1] Meanwhile, a government intelligence agency in Washington, D.C. read the news and realize that Thornhill has been mistaken for "George Kaplan", a fictional persona created by the agency to thwart Vandamm. However, Thornhill is not rescued for fear of compromising their operation.

Thornhill sneaks onto the 20th Century Limited train. He meets Eve Kendall, who hides him from the police. Kendall and Thornhill establish a relationship even though Kendall, unbeknownst to Thornhill, is actually working with Vandamm and his thugs. In Chicago, Kendall tells Thornhill she has arranged a meeting with Kaplan at an isolated bus stop. Thornhill waits at the bus stop, but Kaplan does not show up. He is then attacked by a crop duster plane. After unsuccessfully trying to hide in the fields, he steps in front of a speeding tank truck and the airplane crashes into it, leaving Thornhill to escape in a stolen pickup truck when traffic stops. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_by_Northwest 2/13 1/16/2019 North by Northwest - Wikipedia When he reaches Kaplan's hotel in Chicago, he discovers that Kaplan had checked out and left before Kendall said she talked to him on the phone. Thornhill goes to her room and confronts her, but she leaves. He tracks her to an art auction, where he finds Vandamm and his thugs. Vandamm purchases a Mexican Purépecha statue and leaves his thugs to deal with Thornhill. To engineer an escape from the thugs, Thornhill disrupts the auction by acting erratically; the police are summoned and take him away. When he tries to tell them he is the fugitive murderer, the police release him to the government agency's chief Professor (Leo G. Carroll). The Professor reveals that Kaplan does not exist and was invented to distract Vandamm from the real government agent: Thornhill stopping a truck while being Kendall. Thornhill agrees to help maintain her cover. attacked by the crop duster, from the film At the Mount Rushmore visitor center, Thornhill (as Kaplan) negotiates Vandamm's turnover of Kendall for her trailer prosecution as a spy. When "Kaplan" confronts Kendall, she shoots him "fatally" with a handgun (loaded with blanks) and flees. Thornhill and Kendall meet in a forest. Thornhill discovers Kendall must depart with Vandamm and Leonard on a plane. When Thornhill tries to dissuade her from going, he is knocked unconscious and locked in a hospital room. Thornhill escapes the Professor's custody, and goes to Vandamm's house to rescue Kendall.

At the house, Thornhill overhears that the sculpture holds microfilm, and that Leonard discovered that the gun used by Kendall to kill Thornhill was filled with blanks. Vandamm indicates that he will kill Kendall during the flight. Thornhill warns her with a surreptitious note. Vandamm, Leonard and Kendall depart the house to board the plane. Thornhill attempts to follow, but is stopped by Anna, the housekeeper, who holds him at bay with a gun—until he realizes it is the one loaded only with blanks. As Vandamm is boarding the plane, Kendall takes the sculpture and runs to the pursuing Thornhill. They flee to the top of Mount Rushmore. As they begin to climb down the mountain, they are pursued by Vandamm's two thugs, Leonard and Valerian. After a harrowing chase, Valerian falls to his death, while Leonard is The climax at Mount Rushmore fatally shot by a park ranger.

Later, Thornhill invites Kendall, now the new Mrs. Thornhill, onto the upper berth of a train, which then, suggestively, enters a tunnel.

Cast

Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill Uncredited cast Eva Marie Saint as Eve Kendall Maudie Prickett as Elsie the Maid James Mason as Phillip Vandamm Malcolm Atterbury as Man at the crossroads[8] Jessie Royce Landis as Clara Thornhill Tol Avery as State Police Detective Leo G. Carroll as The Professor John Beradino as Sergeant Emile Klinger[9] Josephine Hutchinson as "Mrs. Townsend" Ned Glass as Ticket Seller Philip Ober as Lester Townsend Robert Lieber as Man in Chicago Train Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_by_Northwest 3/13 1/16/2019 North by Northwest - Wikipedia Martin Landau as Leonard Doreen Lang as Maggie, Roger's Secretary Adam Williams as Valerian Nora Marlowe as Anna Edward Platt as Victor Larrabee Ralph Reed as Bellboy Robert Ellenstein as Licht Olan Soule as Assistant Auctioneer Les Tremayne as Auctioneer Frank Wilcox as Herman Weitner Philip Coolidge as Dr. Cross Robert Shayne as Larry Wade Patrick McVey as Sergeant Flamm Sara Berner as Telephone Operator (voice) Edward Binns as Captain Junket Ken Lynch as Charlie

Hitchcock's cameo appearances are a signature occurrence in most of his films. In North by Northwest, he is seen getting a bus door slammed in his face, just as his credit is appearing on the screen.[10] There has been some speculation as to whether he made one of his rare second appearances, this time at around the 44- minute mark in drag as a woman in a turquoise dress on the train.[11] In fact, the woman was played by Jesslyn Fax, who went on to appear in many episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. She had previously appeared in .

MGM wanted Cyd Charisse for the role of Eve Kendall. Hitchcock stood by his choice of Eva Marie Saint.[12]

Production

John Russell Taylor's biography Hitch: The Life and Times of Alfred Hitchcock (1978) suggests that the story originated after a spell of writer's block during the scripting of another film project:

Alfred Hitchcock had agreed to do a film for MGM and they had chosen an adaptation of the novel The Wreck of the Mary Deare by Hammond Innes. Composer Bernard Herrmann had recommended that Hitchcock work with his friend Ernest Lehman. After a couple of weeks, Lehman offered to quit saying he didn't know what to do with the story. Hitchcock told him they got along great together and they would just write something else. Lehman said that he wanted to make the ultimate Hitchcock film. Hitchcock thought for a moment then said he had always wanted to do a chase across Mount Rushmore. Lehman and Hitchcock spitballed more ideas: a murder at the United Nations Headquarters; a murder at a car plant in Detroit; a final showdown in Alaska. Eventually they settled on the U.N. murder for the opening and the chase across Mount Rushmore for the climax. For the central idea, Hitchcock remembered something an American journalist had told him about spies creating a fake agent as a decoy. Perhaps their hero could be mistaken for this fictitious agent and end up on the run. They bought the idea from the journalist for $10,000.

Lehman repeated this story in the documentary Destination Hitchcock: The Making of North by Northwest that accompanied the 2001 DVD release of the film. Screenwriter William Goldman insists in Which Lie Did I Tell? (2000) that it was Lehman who created North by Northwest and that many of Hitchcock's ideas were not used. Hitchcock had the idea of the hero being stranded in the middle of nowhere, but suggested that the villains try to kill him with a tornado. Lehman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_by_Northwest 4/13 1/16/2019 North by Northwest - Wikipedia responded, "but they're trying to kill him. How are they going to work up a cyclone?" Then, as he told an interviewer, "I just can't tell you who said what to whom, but somewhere during that afternoon, the cyclone in the sky became the crop-duster plane."[13]

In fact, Hitchcock had been working on the story for nearly nine years prior to meeting Lehman. Otis C. Guernsey was the American journalist who had the idea which influenced Hitchcock, inspired by a true story during World War II when British Intelligence obtained a dead body, invented a fictitious officer who was carrying secret papers, and arranged for the body and misleading papers to be discovered by the Germans as a disinformation exercise called Operation Mincemeat. Guernsey turned his idea into a story about an American salesman who travels to the Middle East and is mistaken for a fictitious agent, becoming "saddled with a romantic and dangerous identity." Guernsey admitted that his treatment was full of "corn" and "lacking logic", and he urged Hitchcock to do what he liked with the story. Hitchcock bought the 60 pages for $10,000.

Hitchcock often told journalists of an idea that he had about Cary Grant hiding from the villains inside Abraham Lincoln's nose and being given away when he sneezes. He speculated that the film could be called "The Man in Lincoln's Nose" (Lehman's version is that it was "The Man on Lincoln's Nose"[14]) or even "The Man who Sneezed in Lincoln's Nose". Hitchcock sat on the idea, waiting for the right screenwriter to develop it. The original traveling salesman character had been suited to James Stewart, but Lehman changed it to a Madison Avenue advertising executive, a position which he had formerly held. In an interview in the book Screenwriters on Screenwriting (1995), Lehman stated that he had already written much of the screenplay before coming up with critical elements of the climax.[15]

This was the only Hitchcock film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is currently owned by Turner Entertainment, which owns the pre-1986 MGM film library. Production costs on North by Northwest were seriously escalated when a delay in filming put Cary Grant into the penalty phase of his contract, resulting in an additional $5,000 per day in fees for him before shooting even began.[16]

Filming At Hitchcock's insistence, the film was made in Paramount's VistaVision widescreen process; only two VistaVision films were made at MGM, the other being High Society.[17]

The scene of Cary Grant going to the United Nations in New York was filmed illicitly because UN authorities denied permission to film on or near its property, after reviewing the script. After two failed attempts to get the required shots, Hitchcock had Grant pull up in a taxicab right outside the general assembly building while a hidden camera crew filmed him exiting the vehicle and walking across the plaza.[18] The United Nations Headquarters is The crop-duster sequence was meant to take place in northern Indiana but was shot on location on Garces Highway the site of a scene in the film. (155) near the towns of Wasco and Delano, north of Bakersfield in Kern County, California.[19]

The aircraft flying in the aerial chase scene is a Naval Aircraft Factory N3N Canary, better known as the "Yellow Peril," a World War II Navy primary trainer sometimes converted for crop-dusting.[20] The aircraft that hits the truck and explodes is a wartime Stearman Boeing Model 75 trainer, and many of these were also used for agricultural purposes through the 1970s. The plane was piloted by Bob Coe, a crop-duster from Wasco.[21] Hitchcock placed replicas of square Indiana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_by_Northwest 5/13 1/16/2019 North by Northwest - Wikipedia highway signs in the scene. The British film magazine Empire ranked the crop-duster scene as the "greatest movie moment" of all time in its August 2009 issue.[22]

Set design The house near the end of the film was not real. Hitchcock asked the set designers to make the set resemble a house by Frank Lloyd Wright, the most popular architect in America at the time, using the materials, form and interiors associated with him.[23] The set was built in Culver City, California, where MGM's studios were located. House exteriors were matte paintings.[24]

Costuming A panel of fashion experts convened by GQ in 2006 said the gray suit worn by Cary Grant throughout almost the entire film was the best suit in film history, and the most influential on men's style, stating that it has since been copied for Tom Cruise's character in Collateral and Ben Affleck's character in Paycheck.[25] This sentiment has been echoed by writer Todd McEwen, who called it "gorgeous", and wrote a short story "Cary Grant's Suit" which recounts the film's plot from the viewpoint of the suit.[26] There is some disagreement as to who tailored the suit; according to Vanity Fair magazine, it was Norton & Sons of London,[27] although according to The Independent it was Quintino of Beverly Hills.[28]

Eva Marie Saint's wardrobe for the film was originally entirely chosen by MGM. Hitchcock disliked MGM's selections and the actress and director went to Bergdorf Goodman in New York to select what she would wear.[29]

Editing and post-production In François Truffaut's book-length interview, Hitchcock/Truffaut (1967), Hitchcock said that MGM wanted North by Northwest cut by 15 minutes so the film's length would run under two hours. Hitchcock had his agent check his contract, learned that he had absolute control over the final cut, and refused.[30]

One of Eva Marie Saint's lines in the dining-car seduction scene was redubbed. She originally said "I never make love on an empty stomach", but it was changed in post-production to "I never discuss love on an empty stomach", as the censors considered the original version too risqué.[31]

Release

The film opened in 1959 with a two-week run at Radio City Music Hall and the film had a successful gross of $404,056 for that period.[32] One trailer for North by Northwest features Hitchcock presenting himself as the owner of Alfred Hitchcock Travel Agency and telling the viewer he has made a motion picture to advertise these wonderful vacation stops.[33]

Home media

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_by_Northwest 6/13 1/16/2019 North by Northwest - Wikipedia North by Northwest was released on the Blu-ray Disc format in the United States on November 3, 2009 by Warner Bros. with a 1080p VC-1 encoding.[34][35] This release is a special 50th-anniversary edition, restored and remastered from original VistaVision elements. A DVD edition was also released.

Reception

Box office During its two-week run at Radio City Music Hall, the film grossed $404,056, setting a record in that theater's non-holiday gross.[32] According to MGM records the film earned $5,740,000 in the US and Canada and $4.1 million elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $837,000.[1]

Critical reception North by Northwest currently holds a 99% approval rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on 71 reviews. The site states the critical consensus as, "Gripping, suspenseful and visually iconic, this late-period Hitchcock classic laid the groundwork for countless action thrillers to follow."[36] The film ranks at number 98 in Empire magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Films of All Time.[37] The Writers Guild of America ranked the screenplay No. 21 on its list of 101 Greatest Screenplays ever written.[38] It is ranked the 40th-greatest American film by the American Film Institute.[39]

Time magazine called the film "smoothly troweled and thoroughly entertaining."[40] A. H. Weiler of The New York Times made it a "Critic's Pick" and said it was the "year's most scenic, intriguing and merriest chase"; Weiler complimented the two leads:

Cary Grant, a veteran member of the Hitchcock acting varsity, was never more at home than in this role of the advertising-man-on-the-lam. He handles the grimaces, the surprised look, the quick smile, ... and all the derring-do with professional aplomb and grace, In casting Eva Marie Saint as his romantic vis-à-vis, Mr. Hitchcock has plumbed some talents not shown by the actress heretofore. Although she is seemingly a hard, designing type, she also emerges both the sweet heroine and a glamorous charmer.[41]

Film critic Charles Champlin saw the film as an "anthology of typical Hitchcockian situations", and was particularly taken by the scene and suspense in which Grant's character avoids death when attacked by a crop-dusting plane in the cornfields, which he believed was representative of Hitchcock's finest work.[42]

The London edition of Time Out magazine, reviewing the film nearly a half-century after its initial release, commented:

Fifty years on, you could say that Hitchcock's sleek, wry, paranoid thriller caught the zeitgeist perfectly: Cold War shadiness, secret agents of power, urbane modernism, the ant-like bustle of city life, and a hint of dread behind the sharp suits of affluence. Cary Grant's Roger Thornhill, the film's sharply dressed ad exec who is sucked into a vortex of mistaken identity, certainly wouldn't be out of place in Mad Men. But there's nothing dated about this perfect storm of talent, from Hitchcock and Grant to writer Ernest Lehman (Sweet Smell of Success), co-stars James Mason and Eva Marie Saint, composer Bernard Herrmann and even designer Saul Bass, whose opening-credits sequence still manages to send a shiver down the spine.[43] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_by_Northwest 7/13 1/16/2019 North by Northwest - Wikipedia

Author and journalist Nick Clooney praised Lehman's original story and sophisticated dialogue, calling the film "certainly Alfred Hitchcock's most stylish thriller, if not his best".[44]

Awards reception North by Northwest was nominated for three Academy Awards—for Best Film Editing (George Tomasini), Best Art Direction – Set Decoration, Color (William A. Horning, Robert F. Boyle, Merrill Pye, Henry Grace, Frank McKelvy), and Best Original Screenplay (Ernest Lehman)—at the 32nd Academy Awards ceremony.[45] Two of the three awards went instead to Ben-Hur, and the other went to Pillow Talk. The film also won a 1960 Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay, for Lehman.

In 1995, North by Northwest was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." In June 2008, the American Film Institute revealed its "10 Top 10"—the best ten films in ten "classic" American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. North by Northwest was acknowledged as the seventh-best film in the mystery genre.[46] It was also listed as No. 40 in AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies, No. 4 in AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Thrills, and No. 55 in AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition).

Themes and motifs

Hitchcock planned the film as a change of pace after his dark romantic thriller Vertigo a year earlier. In his book-length interview Hitchcock/Truffaut (1967) with François Truffaut, Hitchcock said that he wanted to do "something fun, light-hearted, and generally free of the symbolism permeating his other movies."[47] Writer Ernest Lehman has also mocked those who look for symbolism in the film.[48] Despite its popular appeal, the film is considered to be a masterpiece for its themes of deception, mistaken identity, and moral relativism in the Cold War era.

The title North by Northwest is a subject of debate. Many have seen it as having been taken from a line ("I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw") in Hamlet, a work also concerned with the shifty nature of reality.[49] Hitchcock noted, in an interview with Peter Bogdanovich in 1963, "It's a fantasy. The whole film is epitomized in the title—there is no such thing as north-by-northwest on the compass."[50] ("Northwest by north", however, is one of 32 points of the compass.) Lehman states that he used a working title for the film of "In a Northwesterly Direction", because the film's action was to begin in New York and climax in Alaska. Then the head of the story department at MGM suggested "North by Northwest", but this was still to be a working title. Other titles were considered, including "The Man on Lincoln's Nose", but "North by Northwest" was kept because, according to Lehman, "We never did find a [better] title."[14] The Northwest Airlines reference in the film plays on the title.

The film's plot involves a "MacGuffin", a term popularized by Hitchcock: a physical object that everyone in the film is chasing but which has no deep relationship to the plot. Late in North by Northwest, it emerges that the spies are attempting to smuggle microfilm containing government secrets out of the country. They have been trying to kill Thornhill, whom they believe to be the agent on their trail, 'George Kaplan'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_by_Northwest 8/13 1/16/2019 North by Northwest - Wikipedia North by Northwest has been referred to as "the first James Bond film"[51] due to its similarities with splashily colorful settings, secret agents, and an elegant, daring, wisecracking leading man opposite a sinister yet strangely charming villain. The crop-duster scene inspired the helicopter chase in From Russia with Love.[52]

The film's final shot—that of the train speeding into a tunnel during a romantic embrace onboard—is a famous bit of self-conscious Freudian symbolism reflecting Hitchcock's mischievous sense of humor. In the book Hitchcock/Truffaut (p. 107–108), Hitchcock called it a "phallic symbol ... probably one of the most impudent shots I ever made."

Influences

The film's title is reported to have been the influence for the name of the popular annual live-music festival South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, started in 1987, with the name idea coming from Louis Black, editor and co-founder of the local alternative weekly The Austin Chronicle, as a play on the Hitchcock film title.[53]

The third episode of the Doctor Who serial "The Deadly Assassin" includes an homage to North by Northwest, when the James Mason, Eva Marie Saint and Doctor, who like Hitchcock's hero is falsely accused of a politically motivated murder, is attacked by gunfire from a Cary Grant at Mount Rushmore biplane piloted by one of his enemy's henchmen.[54] during filming. Studio mockups were intercut with actual monument Adaptations footage for the climactic scene.

North by Northwest was adapted as a stage play by Carolyn Burns. The adaptation premiered at the Melbourne Theatre Company in 2015.[55]

See also

List of films considered the best

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