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North by Northwest
Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
Approved
1959
2h 16m
Mystery
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Thriller
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8.3
97%
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A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.
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Cast of North by Northwest
Cary Grant
Roger Thornhill
Eva Marie Saint
Eve Kendall
James Mason
Phillip Vandamm
Jessie Royce Landis
Clara Thornhill
Leo G. Carroll
Professor
Josephine Hutchinson
Mrs. Townsend
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
Sergeant Flamm
Edward Binns
Captain Junket
Ken Lynch
Charley
Nora Marlowe
Anna, the Menacing Housekeeper (uncredited)
Doreen Lang
Maggie - Thornhill's Secretary (uncredited)
John Beradino
Sergeant Emile Klinger (uncredited)
Ned Glass
Ticket Seller (uncredited)
Tol Avery
State Police Detective (uncredited)
Malcolm Atterbury
Man at Prairie Crossing (uncredited)
Maudie Prickett
Hotel Maid Elsie (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Plaza Hotel Lounge Patron (uncredited)
Stanley Adams
Lieutenant Harding (uncredited)
Andy Albin
Farmer (uncredited)
Ernest Anderson
Porter on Twentieth Century Ltd. (uncredited)
Frank Wilcox
Herman Weltner (uncredited)
Brandon Beach
Man at Auction (uncredited)
Steve Carruthers
Man at Auction (uncredited)
Taggart Casey
Shaving Man (uncredited)
Bill Catching
Auction Attendant (uncredited)
Walter Coy
U.S. Intelligence Agency Official (uncredited)
Jimmy Cross
Taxi Driver #1 (uncredited)
Patricia Cutts
Hospital Patient (uncredited)
Jack Daly
Train Steward (uncredited)
John Damler
Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
Lawrence Dobkin
U.S. Intelligence Agency Official (uncredited)
Tommy Farrell
Eddie - Elevator Starter (uncredited)
Jesslyn Fax
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Adolph Faylauer
Bald Bidder (uncredited)
Sally Fraser
Second United Nations Receptionist (uncredited)
Paul Genge
Lieutenant Hagerman (uncredited)
James Gonzalez
Man at Auction (uncredited)
Tom Greenway
Silent State Police Detective (uncredited)
Robert Haines
Man at United Nations Building (uncredited)
Stuart Hall
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock
Man Who Misses Bus (uncredited)
Stuart Holmes
Hotel Lounge Patron (uncredited)
Eugene Jackson
Security Guard at Auction (uncredited)
Bobby Johnson
Waiter (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp
Man Leaving Office Building (uncredited)
Madge Kennedy
Mrs. Finlay (uncredited)
Colin Kenny
Man at Auction (uncredited)
Carl M. Leviness
Man at United Nations Building (uncredited)
Alexander Lockwood
Judge Anson B. Flynn (uncredited)
Frank Marlowe
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Baynes Barron
Taxi Driver #2 (uncredited)
Thomas Martin
Train Passenger (uncredited)
James McCallion
Plaza Valet (uncredited)
Maura McGiveney
Attendant (uncredited)
Carl Milletaire
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Hans Moebus
Man at United Nations Building (uncredited)
Howard Negley
Conductor on Twentieth Century, Ltd. (uncredited)
Monty O'Grady
Man at United Nations Building (uncredited)
Ralph Reed
Bellhop (uncredited)
John Roy
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Jeffrey Sayre
Hotel Lounge Patron / Man at Mt. Rushmore Cafeteria (uncredited)
Scott Seaton
Man at Auction (uncredited)
Harry Seymour
Victor - Captain of Waiters (uncredited)
Robert Shayne
Larry Wade (uncredited)
Jeremy Slate
Policeman at Grand Central Station (uncredited)
Olan Soule
Assistant Auctioneer (uncredited)
Helen Spring
Bidder (uncredited)
Harvey Stephens
Stockbroker (uncredited)
Harry Strang
Assistant Conductor (uncredited)
Arthur Tovey
Man at Auction (uncredited)
Dale Van Sickel
Ranger (uncredited)
Lloyd Williams
Minor Role (uncredited)
Robert B. Williams
Patrolman Waggoner (uncredited)
Paula Winslowe
Woman at Auction (uncredited)
Wilson Wood
Photographer at United Nations (uncredited)
Carleton Young
Fanning Nelson (uncredited)
Dick Johnstone
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Bert Stevens
Man at United Nations Building (uncredited)
Cosmo Sardo
Worker (uncredited)
Don Anderson
Worker (uncredited)
Alphonso DuBois
Man at United Nations Building (uncredited)
Len Hendry
Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
Anne Anderson
Woman (uncredited)
Rama Bai
Woman at United Nations Building (uncredited)
Finn Zirzow
Worker (uncredited)
North by Northwest Ratings & Reviews
bstoned
February 11, 2025
Classics don’t get much better than this
Bill S.
February 7, 2025
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New York Daily News
Kate Cameron
The brilliant director has outdone himself by piling thrill on thrill for the delectation of an enraptured audience.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Barbara L. Wilson
Alfred Hitchcock's new thriller, North by Northwest, is one of those no holds barred films. For better than two hours, he lets the Technicolor melodrama ramble across the VistaVision screen while gleefully setting traps for his hero.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Marie Stevenson
[North by Northwest] gives Grant full play in the sort of role he does best -- and has the added virtue of being done by the master of suspense.
Detroit Free Press
Helen Bower
On all counts, North by Northwest is Hitchcock's best picture in recent years.
Los Angeles Times
John L. Scott
Grant's technique, so well established, shines brightly under Hitchcock's guidance. The two seem completely en rapport in movie making. Miss Saint, effective in her former sweet or drab roles, makes the switch to glamour as a lovely Mata Hari type.
Boston Globe
Cyrus Durgin
The pace is fast, the thrills plentiful, there isn't a dull moment, the story is amazingly inventive, even if the long arm of coincidence is not only wrenched but nearly fractured.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Myles Standish
You are being vastly entertained, as by an Edgar Wallace mystery, and it doesn't have to make much sense. Mr. Hitchcock, along with cohorts Cary Grant and Eva Maria Saint charms you, so even if you realize you've been had, you like it.
Chicago Tribune
Mae Tinee
The plotting s not always as tight as it might be, and some of the dialog might be considered blandly risque, but the performances are top-notch. Mr. Hitchcock has whipped up a frolicsome concoction.
The New Yorker
Whitney Balliett
A hopelessly attenuated round of mistaken identity, cloak-and-dagger doings, sympathetic but helpless friendly agents, a double-dealing woman, and so forth.
The Hollywood Reporter
Jack Moffitt
Hitchcock is such a master of suspense that not many frames have passed before the audience has achieved complete identification with the characters and is knowing the thrill of vicarious fear and the shared pleasures of love and passion.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Hitchcock's ultimate wrong-man comedy.
Slant Magazine
Bill Weber
The picture is hugely pleased with itself, but it's too funny and expertly calibrated to mind in the least.
New York Times
A.H. Weiler
... a colorful and exciting route for spies, counterspies and lovers.
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
Though not as cleverly original as Strangers on a Train, or as cleverly sexy as Notorious, this is one of Hitchcock's most entertaining American thrillers.
TIME Magazine
TIME Staff
Smoothly troweled and thoroughly entertaining.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
A great film, and certainly one of the most entertaining movies ever made, directed by Alfred Hitchcock at his peak.
Variety
Variety Staff
At times it seems Hitchcock is kidding his own penchant for the bizarre, but this sardonic attitude is so deftly handled it only enhances the thrills.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
One of Hitchcock's very best comic thrillers, North by Northwest features scene after unforgettable scene.
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