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North by Northwest 1959

"It`s so horribly sad," says a CIA man in North by Northwest "how is it I feel like laughing ?" It is a question one migth ask of the film. Hitchcock`s first movie after Vertigo migth also have its serious implications about identity and sexual tensions, but they are kept at arm`s length by the sheer deligth in malevolent inentiveness.

The basic situation is deligthfully outrangeous.

An advertising man, Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant), is mistaken for a secret agent and threatened and chased across the length and breadth of America. What sharpens the situations is the impeccable logic by which this absurd premise is developed, and the wit and wisdom of the dialogue.

Just some short impressions of the film:

It all starts when Roger O. Thornhill goes to the telephone at the same moment the boy announces a call for Mr Kaplan - a non existing, but badly wanted secret agent. Roger is forced to get into the gangsters car and taken to a house where he is force-fed neat bourbon to facilitate the arragements for his "accidental" death.

After he managed to escape totally drunken by car, he goes to New York City to visit the owner of the house, an UN representative. But the moment he is introduced to him the man is murdered and Roger get`s in serious trouble by instinctively catching the dead body and cluntching at the knife in his back - making it seem that he is the murderer.

He escapes by train, but they are after him...

Just watch the film, it`s really great !!!

Alfred Hitchcock appears in the movie at the very end of the opening credits. He is trying to catch a bus and the bus door slams right in his face and the bus drives off.

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