North by Northwest (1959)

Name: North by Northwest
Released: 1959
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll

• Movies, Adventure, Thriller

• 136 min

7.9

It's a deadly game of "tag" and Cary Grant is "it"!

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Casting: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Josephine Hutchinson, Philip Ober, Martin Landau, Adam Williams, Edward Platt, Robert Ellenstein, Les Tremayne, Philip Coolidge, Patrick McVey, Edward Binns, Ken Lynch, Nora Marlowe, Doreen Lang, John Beradino, Ned Glass, Tol Avery, Malcolm Atterbury, Maudie Prickett, Bess Flowers, Stanley Adams, Andy Albin, Ernest Anderson, Frank Wilcox, Brandon Beach, Steve Carruthers, Taggart Casey, Bill Catching, Walter Coy, Jimmy Cross, Patricia Cutts, Jack Daly, John Damler, Lawrence Dobkin, Tommy Farrell, Jesslyn Fax, Adolph Faylauer, Sally Fraser, Paul Genge, James Gonzalez, Tom Greenway, Robert Haines, Stuart Hall, Alfred Hitchcock, Stuart Holmes, Eugene Jackson, Bobby Johnson, Kenner G. Kemp, Madge Kennedy, Colin Kenny, Carl M. Leviness, Alexander Lockwood, Frank Marlowe, Baynes Barron, Thomas Martin, James McCallion, Maura McGiveney, Carl Milletaire, Hans Moebus, Howard Negley, Monty O'Grady, Ralph Reed, John Roy, Jeffrey Sayre, Scott Seaton, Harry Seymour, Robert Shayne, Jeremy Slate, Olan Soule, Helen Spring, Harvey Stephens, Harry Strang, Arthur Tovey, Dale Van Sickel, Lloyd Williams, Robert B. Williams, Paula Winslowe, Wilson Wood, Carleton Young, Dick Johnstone, Bert Stevens, Cosmo Sardo, Don Anderson, Alphonso DuBois, Len Hendry, Anne Anderson, Rama Bai, Finn Zirzow
Countries: United States of America
Premiere: 1959-07-08
Status: Released

Tags: new york city, assassination, undercover agent, espionage, spy, mistaken identity, deception, romance, fugitive, on the run, advertising, framed, on the road, government agent, road movie, framed for murder, trains, cold war era, mount rushmore, absurd, adventure, man on the run, couple on the run, moral relativism, awestruck, cliché

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.