Synopsis
In Alfred Hitchcock's 'North by Northwest', Cary Grant plays an innocent man mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies. He becomes embroiled in a deadly plot involving an assassination and a mysterious microfilm, leading him on a cross-country chase filled with suspense, romance and iconic cinematic moments.
Did You Know?
- Cary Grant was actually drunk during the drunk driving scene.
- Mt. Rushmore refused to allow any filming on the monument.
- The crop duster scene was filmed in a California desert.
- The movie wasn't shot in any of the locations it's set.
- Alfred Hitchcock makes his cameo two minutes into the film.
Iconic Quotes
- The moment I meet an attractive woman, I have to start pretending I have no desire to make love to her.
- I'm a man of few words.
- I didn't realize you were an art collector. I thought you just collected corpses.
- In the world of advertising, there's no such thing as a lie. There's only expedient exaggeration.
- Call it my woman's intuition, if you will. But I've never trusted neatness. Neatness is always the result of deliberate planning.