North By Northwest

Adventure, Thriller, Mystery

Cary Grant	Roger O. Thornhill
Eva Marie Saint	Eve Kendall
James Mason	Phillip Vandamm
Jessie Royce Landis	Clara Thornhill
Leo G. Carroll	The Professor
Josephine Hutchinson	Mrs. Townsend
Philip Ober	Lester Townsend
Martin Landau	Leonard
Adam Williams	Valerian
Edward Platt	Victor Larrabee
Ed Binns
Bill Catching
Philip Coolidge
Lawrence Dobkin

Director	Alfred Hitchcock
Producer	Alfred Hitchcock; Herbert Coleman
Writer	Ernest Lehman
Cinematography	Robert Burks
Musician	Bernard Herrmann

A case of mistaken identity taken to the extreme when witty and charming advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) unwittingly falls in with a ruthless band of foreign spies. The head spy, Philip Vandamm (James Mason) insists that Thornhill is in fact, CIA agent George Kaplin. Unbeknownst to all, including Thornhill, Kaplin is a fictional agent that the CIA invented to bait and trap the spies. While the CIA is trying to figure out a way to get the spies off of Thornhill's tail, Thornhill is subjected to threats at gunpoint, a staged car crash of which he survives, a harrowing airplane chase, and a perilous pursuit across the faces of Mt. Rushmore. Of course, all of this wouldn't be half as interesting without a little love interest, a woman Thornhill meets during his adventures named Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint). But in a world where Hitchcock is king and calamity abounds, nothing and nobody is as they first seem.