North by Northwest

stevesnj

stevesnj

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This is the first Hitchcock movie I ever saw and was hooked on Hitchcocks style instantly. This is beatifully filmed and acted.

Its on TCM Turner Classic Movies 6pm eastern tonight
 
I was just watching Rear Window on TCM.

Good times, Hitchcock flicks have a good feel for the night before Halloween.
 
It's one of my favorite's from Hitch, behind Rear Window and Vertigo.

"That's funny, that plane's dustin' crops where there ain't no crops."
Great point, TC. Hitchcock does for Halloween was Capra does for Christmas.
 
In a similiar vein is Stanley Donen's "Charade" with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn.

I loved the movie, but can't understand why it isn't in anyone's "best 100" list. It's certainly in mine.
 
I like Rear Window, and The Birds, but for some reason this movie always struck me and was always suspensful, and Carey Grant is amazing, I felt for him and felt his frustration. And the music was intense. Like John Williams intense and dramatic like.
 
I think that North by Northwest is one of those films that always seems to capture the mind and not let go of it. It is as close to perfection in an acting, technical, and overall sense as any of Hitchcock's films, yet it was a box office flop (according the studios).

I just finished reading a book about Hitchcock called (lemme grab it) 'Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho' by Stephen Rebello. This is a great book if anyone is interested in Hitchcock and the way his mind worked and what contributed to his change in picture styles towards the latter part of his career.

Personally my favorite Hitchcock film will always be 'Strangers on a Train' but I can honestly say that 'North by Northwest' was the film that originally got me to appreciate Hitchcock as an artist and filmmaker.
 
"North by Northwest" is a wonderful movie and a great example of style over substance in that the experience of watching it is great, but if you really pay attention to the story it doesn't make much sense.

Chris

p.s. "'Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho' by Stephen Rebello" I agree this book is excellent.
 
When I first watched it i missed a key scene that I did see th second time around. The scene I missed was when all th US CIA operatives were in the conference room and explained how Kaplin was not even a real person and how they are going to leave Thornhill on his own and he just may be killed when they could stop that fate.
 
Well, the McGuffin in North by Northwest is kind of lame, but it is still a cool flick.

I love the way that love and sex was presented in the '50's. Gary Grant spends one night on a train with Eva Marie Saint, she tries to get him killed in a cornfield and they still fall in love. Wouldn't it be cool if life was that simple (minus the cornfield thing)?

My favorite quote is from Gary Grant:

"Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself "slightly" killed."

I love that.
 
I love this post... One of my Hitchcock fav's that's not mentioned often is "The Trouble with Harry." The macabre humor is great!

And there definitely has been a lot of Hitchcock on tv recently... just finished watching To Catch a Thief the other day. That Grace Kelly... sigh...
 
Yeah, Grace Kelly... damn she was hot.


The opening scene in Rear Window was money. So much exposition without a single line of dialogue or title crawl... that guy was amazing.

Anyone see Rope? I believe there are only 7 edits in the whole thing. The moveable sets were very clever.
 
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