But then he realizes, after he has left Maggie to return to the office in the taxi, that his mother is not at home - she is playing bridge with friends. Foreign spy Philip Vandamm and his henchman Leonard try to eliminate him but when Thornhill tries to make sense of the case, he is framed for murder. On the huge wall of glass are distorted reflections of midtown Manhattan from below, with yellow taxis at rush hour moving back and forth. He frustrates his potential murderers and narrowly escapes death. Thornhill Cary Grant pursued by ruthless spy Phillip Vandamm James Mason after Thornhill is mistaken for a government agent. Another of its themes is false pretenses and survival in 20th Century America during the Cold War.
The film's themes include many plot devices and elements typical of Hitchcock films especially and Saboteur 1942 - predominantly the themes of mistaken identity for the innocent, ordinary, 'Wrong Man' hero. Naturally, the police refuse to believe his story of abduction, espionage, and attempted murder. All users should delete the content as soon as they view it. I wonder if I look like Kaplan. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Writer: Ernest Lehman Stars: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason Watch online full movie: North by Northwest 1959 for free. It's never been anything else.
Roger returns to the Plaza Hotel, persuading his mother to accompany him so that they can learn more about - and possibly locate the mysterious Mr. Through a misunderstanding successful but average advertising executive Roger Thornhill Grant is believed to be George Kaplan, a spy wanted by foreign counter spies. Wrenching suspense and hair-raising thrills abound in this Alfred Hitchcock spy classic starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason. Townsend - not the man Thornhill had seen before! Townsend who lives in Glen Cove, but he is a different Mr. Thornhill reassures his mother and himself of his own identity: Mother, this is your son, Roger Thornhill. I'll be late for the bridge club. He requests that she contact his lawyer and bail him out the next morning.
Self-assured in a gray flannel suit that he wears throughout the entire film , the classic ad-man is rushing to a business luncheon, coming down an elevator and walking briskly through a modern Manhattan office building to a taxi. Cast: , , , , , , , Director: Genres: Production Co: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Distributors: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Keywords: , , , , , , ,. Thornhill: Well, you lend a certain air of respectability. Thornhill: Not that I mind a slight case of abduction now and then, but I have tickets for the theatre this evening, to a show I was looking forward to and I get, well, kind of unreasonable about things like that. Thornhill: Good, you'll lose less than usual. In the next few days, he is scheduled to travel to Chicago staying at the Ambassador East Hotel , and then to Rapid City, South Dakota at the Sheraton Johnson Hotel.
The quick-paced, glamorous espionage thriller includes a tongue-in-cheek odyssey away from the city - a perilous adventure for a man who is normally sheltered by his wealth and prestige. Clara: Don't be sarcastic, Roger. When the elevator reaches the ground floor, he escorts the women off the elevator first, using the people around him to escape from the thugs. However, there were no nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, or Best Score, to name only a few. Some of his concerns are about his love life - he dictates one message to his ex-wife, sent with a box of candy: Oh well, put 'Something for your sweet tooth, baby, and all your other sweet parts. His final salvation occurs on the Presidential faces carved on Mount Rushmore - the most modern American image of all.
Fortuitously, his erratic, out-of-control driving attracts a police car that chases after him and arrests him after accidentally rear-ending his car. At the Plaza, he meets his business associates for drinks in the Oak Room Bar under the Everett Shinn murals. A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive. The gridwork is soon transformed or dissolved into the side of a tall New York City skyscraper - a glass-surfaced building that diagonally fills the screen from the lower left to upper right at an angle. Pages: Background North by Northwest 1959 is a suspenseful, classic Alfred Hitchcock caper thriller.
Soon Vandamm's henchmen close in on Thornhill, resulting in a number of iconic action sequences. Now totally inebriated, they put him blind-drunk in the driver's seat of a Mercedes roadster convertible on a dark, winding ocean cliff road later that night, expecting him to be the victim of a fatal, drunk-driving accident on the dangerous road by having it run off the cliff. I told you I'm not Kaplan, whoever he is! The director's familiar MacGuffin in this film the device or plot element that catches the viewer's attention or drives the logic of the plot is the secret information sought by the spies, and secondarily, the mistaken identity at the film's start. Clara: I don't see why you want me along. To dissuade their misperceptions, Thornhill shows all his proofs of identity: identification cards, driver's license, but they are rejected. Vandamm: With such expert play-acting, you make this very room a theatre. The allusion to traveling 'North' by Northwest airlines seems to be the most probable explanation for the film's title.
All evidence of his earlier visit has vanished - the liquor stains have been removed from the couch and there are no liquor bottles in the cabinet; 'Mrs. Everyone laughs boisterously at the ludicrous question and joke - except Roger, the helpless victim. Why was I brought here? Building North on Madison Avenue toward 60th St. Realizing they are in danger, he rushes out with his mother to take the elevator to the lobby as she makes another wisecrack: I think I'd like to meet these killers. At the Glen Cove Police Station, it is discovered that he was driving a stolen vehicle. No, they didn't give me a chaser. Carroll character in the film - the head of the American Intelligence Agency, was possibly modeled after two 1950s real-life figures: Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and his brother Allen W.
I made him feel like a Good Samaritan. A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive. A little more polished than the others. From the crowded environment emerges a successful Madison Avenue business executive, the handsome, unattached, and debonair Roger O. Arriving on their floor in the up elevator, his would-be assassins join them in the crowded down elevator.