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Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
FeaturingCary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Josephine Hutchinson, Philip Ober, Martin Landau
Review snapshotNorth by Northwest is famous for its famous action sequences such as hanging on Mount Rushmore and the crop duster plane scene.
Essentially it is a film of mistaken identity as advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is mistaken for George Kaplan by some bad guys in league with a foreign power presumably Russian.
The trouble is Kaplan is a made up operative created by the CIA to flush out the film's villain, the urbane but deadly Vandamm (James Mason) and his cronies such as the fey henchman Leonar…
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