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North by Northwest

1959

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

It's a deadly game of "tag" and Cary Grant is "it"!

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

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Alternative Titles

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Genres

Mystery Adventure Thriller

Themes

High speed and special ops Thrillers and murder mysteries Exciting spy thrillers with tense intrigue Explosive and action-packed heroes vs. villains Intense political and terrorist thrillers Heists and thrilling action Intriguing and suspenseful murder mysteries Show All…

Premiere

01 Jul 1959

USA Chicago, Illinois

17 Jul 1959

USA Los Angeles, California

18 Jul 1959

Spain San Sebastián Film Festival

Theatrical limited

16 Aug 2018

South Korea12

Theatrical

08 Jul 1959

UKPG

06 Aug 1959

02 Sep 1959

Brazil

17 Sep 1959

JapanG

19 Oct 1959

Argentina
Sweden15

21 Oct 1959

FranceTP

12 Nov 1959

Hong Kong

27 Nov 1959

AustraliaPG
Italy

15 Dec 1959

Greece13

18 Dec 1959

FinlandK-16
Germany12
Netherlands6

25 Dec 1959

Austria12

19 Feb 1960

IrelandPG

08 Mar 1960

PortugalM/12

17 Mar 1960

Uruguay

01 Oct 1960

South Korea12

26 Jun 1997

Netherlands6

04 Oct 2000

SpainA

26 Jun 2008

Netherlands6

31 Oct 2024

CanadaPG

Digital

01 Jul 2020

AustraliaPG

Physical

14 Dec 2000

Mexico

01 Apr 2001

CzechiaU

22 Jun 2001

Netherlands6

12 Jul 2010

Brazil14

14 Nov 2012

Netherlands6

08 Nov 2016

France

TV

30 Jan 2005

Netherlands6

Argentina

19 Oct 1959

Theatrical

Australia

27 Nov 1959

TheatricalPG

01 Jul 2020

DigitalPG

Austria

25 Dec 1959

Theatrical12

Brazil

02 Sep 1959

Theatrical

12 Jul 2010

Physical14

Canada

31 Oct 2024

TheatricalPG 65th Anniversary Re-Release

Czechia

01 Apr 2001

PhysicalU DVD

Finland

18 Dec 1959

TheatricalK-16

France

21 Oct 1959

TheatricalTP

08 Nov 2016

Physical

Germany

18 Dec 1959

Theatrical12

Greece

15 Dec 1959

Theatrical13

Hong Kong

12 Nov 1959

Theatrical

Ireland

19 Feb 1960

TheatricalPG

Italy

27 Nov 1959

Theatrical

Japan

17 Sep 1959

TheatricalG

Mexico

14 Dec 2000

Physical DVD

Netherlands

18 Dec 1959

Theatrical6

26 Jun 1997

Theatrical6 Re-release

22 Jun 2001

Physical6 DVD

30 Jan 2005

TV6 Veronica

26 Jun 2008

Theatrical6 Re-release

14 Nov 2012

Physical6 Blu-ray

Portugal

08 Mar 1960

TheatricalM/12

South Korea

01 Oct 1960

Theatrical12

16 Aug 2018

Theatrical limited12 Re-release

Spain

18 Jul 1959

Premiere San Sebastián Film Festival

04 Oct 2000

TheatricalA

Sweden

19 Oct 1959

Theatrical15

UK

08 Jul 1959

TheatricalPG

USA

01 Jul 1959

Premiere Chicago, Illinois

17 Jul 1959

Premiere Los Angeles, California

06 Aug 1959

Theatrical New York City, New York

Uruguay

17 Mar 1960

Theatrical

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Review by Willow Maclay ★★★★½ 7

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

2 1/2 hours of almost fucking and then a train penis goes into a mountain vagina.
Review by brendan o'hare ★★★★½ 2

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

The final shot is meant to represent that they are on a train
Review by maria ★★★★½ 2

why is this hornier than cats (2019)?
Review by p e r s i a 🍒 ★★★★ 7

is it just me or did alfred hitchcock accidentally make a james bond movie 4 years before they even existed? iconic behaviour
Review by eely 🎄 ★★★★ 2

me: :(
cary grant: 🏃🏻‍♂️ 🚁 🏃🏻‍♂️ 🚂 🏃🏻‍♂️
me: :)
Review by liam f ★★★★½ 4

hiring an actress only eight years older than Cary Grant for the role of his mother in this film has to be one of the funniest casting decisions ever made
Review by Karsten ★★★½ 2

I love what Hitchcock does visually here. Also probably his silliest (that last cut is hilarious.) Isn't this essentially just The 39 Steps with more creative freedom? He even mentions the number 39.
Review by SilentDawn ★★★★★ 4

100
(35mm)
North by Northwest is famous because of one scene. Now, that doesn't mean the rest of it is lacking, as it should be common knowledge of its solidified place in the canon of the greatest American films in the history of the cinema, but the zenith is found in a classic Hitchcock concept: the image of the pursuer and the pursued. Its famous sequence of a crop-duster aircraft leaping towards Cary Grant's Roger O. Thornhill in the Midwest countryside - bullets flying near his dives for survival - is constructed through the context of a world unknown: a place not designed for your color or creed or gender or social status. It is an environment, depicted via the…
Review by Will Menaker ★★★★★ 3

When I was a kid I was bored stupid by the movie described by my parents as among the most action-packed thrillers ever made, but that's just because I was too young to appreciate the amazing score by Bernard Hermann, how nice and classy all the trains and hotel rooms look, and all the sexual style banter like when Cary Grant says to Eve Marie Saint, "I could murder you right now" and she says "yes, preferably my pussy."
Review by Ayo Edebiri ★★★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

The way Eve basically loses all of her savvy in the ending sequence so Thornhill can come to her rescue was really funny to me lol
Review by Christopher McQuarrie 53

“Games? Must we?”
It’s fitting that North By Northwest truly gets going when a Madison Avenue Ad exec, played by consummate leading man Cary Grant, finds himself at the wheel of a stolen car and headed for a cliff after having been force-fed a bottle of bourbon by mysterious henchman who’ve mistaken him for someone else. This is, after all, the film one could argue to be Alfred Hitchcock’s least restrained, even if the filmmaker himself was never anything but, much to his eventual remorse.
Though often commercially successful, Alfred Hitchcock was generally dismissed in his day by many critics and the academy as a purveyor of pure style (it took the French to declare him a genius before Hollywood…
Review by cinemacl🎃wn ★★★ 31

Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest features a captivating first half, making terrific use of wit, tension & elements of suspense but the film as a whole is unfortunately marred by a lacklustre second half which bogs the story down with a drawn out narrative that makes its runtime felt in the end although it does have one spectacular sequence that will be etched in memory once it's seen.
One of the first films to lay down the foundations for modern action thrillers in Hollywood, North by Northwest is a thrilling tale of mistaken identity which concerns an innocent advertising executive who is mistaken for a government agent by an organisation of foreign spies and is pursued by them. The story covers…

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It's a deadly game of "tag" and Cary Grant is "it"!

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Premiere

01 Jul 1959

17 Jul 1959

18 Jul 1959

Theatrical limited

16 Aug 2018

Theatrical

08 Jul 1959

06 Aug 1959

02 Sep 1959

17 Sep 1959

19 Oct 1959

21 Oct 1959

12 Nov 1959

27 Nov 1959

15 Dec 1959

18 Dec 1959

25 Dec 1959

19 Feb 1960

08 Mar 1960

17 Mar 1960

01 Oct 1960

26 Jun 1997

04 Oct 2000

26 Jun 2008

31 Oct 2024

Digital

01 Jul 2020

Physical

14 Dec 2000

01 Apr 2001

22 Jun 2001

12 Jul 2010

14 Nov 2012

08 Nov 2016

TV

30 Jan 2005

Argentina

19 Oct 1959

Australia

27 Nov 1959

01 Jul 2020

Austria

25 Dec 1959

Brazil

02 Sep 1959

12 Jul 2010

Canada

31 Oct 2024

Czechia

01 Apr 2001

Finland

18 Dec 1959

France

21 Oct 1959

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Writer

Editor

Cinematography

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Production Design

Art Direction

Set Decoration

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