North by Northwest
North by Northwest is a 1959 American spy thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason. The original screenplay written by Ernest Lehman was intended to be the basis for "the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures".
Plot
A waiter pages George Kaplan at the Oak Room restaurant at the Plaza Hotel in New York City at the request of two well-dressed men. As advertising executive Roger Thornhill summons the same waiter, he is mistaken for Kaplan, kidnapped by the pair, and brought to the estate of Lester Townsend in Glen Cove. Townsend interrogates Thornhill and subsequently arranges to kill him in a staged drunk driving crash; Thornhill survives, but fails to convince the police or his mother of what happened. Returning to the estate, Thornhill learns that Townsend is a United Nations diplomat.
Awards
Cast
- Adam Williams
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Bess Flowers
- Carleton Young
- Cary Grant
- Colin Kenny
- Edward Binns
- Edward Platt
- Eva Marie Saint
- Frank Marlowe
- Frank Wilcox
- Harvey Stephens
- James Mason
- Jeremy Slate
- Jessie Royce Landis
- John Beradino
- Josephine Hutchinson
- Ken Lynch
- Lawrence Dobkin
- Leo G. Carroll
- Les Tremayne
- Malcolm Atterbury
- Martin Landau
- Ned Glass
- Philip Coolidge
- Philip Ober
- Robert Ellenstein
- Robert Shayne
- Stanley Adams