North by Northwest (70mm)

NOTE: North by Northwest was originally filmed in VistaVision and released in 1.85:1. This 70mm film print of the newly restored version, approved by the Film Foundation, was created by Warner Bros. at Fotokem by filming out a new 65mm negative.

Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. 1959, 136 mins. 70mm. With Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau. Hitchcock’s breathless, almost improbably entertaining suspense thriller is his ultimate “wrong man” movie, with Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill, an unassuming advertising executive on the run from a dastardly group of spies who have mistaken him for a government agent. Shot in Technicolor and featuring as many vertiginous angles, great escapes, and witty bits of dialogue as one could conceive for a single film, North by Northwest was the culmination of his extraordinary run of masterpieces in the 1950s. From its cornfield set piece to its Mount Rushmore climax, this is Hitchcock at his most dizzyingly huge. 

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