North by Northwest

Ben Mankiewicz introduces North By Northwest, 1959.

TCM's Dave Karger introduces North By Northwest, 1959.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces North By Northwest, 1959.

TCM fan Ernie Mannix joins Ben Mankiewicz for an introduction and comments following North By Northwest, 1959.

TCM's Dave Karger introduces North By Northwest, 1959.

TCM's Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces North By Northwest, 1959.

Thornhill (Cary Grant), at Grand Central, wanted for the murder he didn’t commit at the United Nations, figuring he must pursue the mysterious Kaplan to Chicago, evades ticket agent Ned Glass, then gets an assist on the train from Eva Marie Saint, in Alfred Hitchcock’s North By Northwest, 1959.

Wearing shades to evade a nationwide manhunt, Thornhill (Cary Grant) on the 20th Century Limited is guided to Eve (Eva Marie Saint) in the dining car, whom he met earlier, launching a celebrated provocative dialogue piece by screenwriter Ernest Lehman, in Alfred Hitchcock’s North By Northwest, 1959.

Sent to an empty farm field in hopes of finally meeting the elusive Kaplan, Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) gets no result, even from a passing farmer (Andy Albin), leading to the famous crop-dusting sequence devised by director Alfred Hitchcock and screenwriter Ernest Lehman, in North By Northwest, 1959.

One of designer Saul Bass’ best-known openings, Bernard Hermann’s music highlighting, then the director’s cameo, as Cary Grant and Doreen Lang (as ad-man Roger Thornhill and secretary Maggie) fly into Ernest Lehman’s original screenplay, in Alfred Hitchcock’s North By Northwest, 1959.

Snatched from a Manhattan restaurant to a Long Island mansion, Thornhill (Cary Grant) is interrogated by James Mason, whom he presumes is Townsend, and who insists he must be Kaplan, with henchman Martin Landau, nothing clear, in Alfred Hitchcock’s North By Northwest, 1959.

With his mother (Jessie Royce Landis) at the Plaza, Thornhill (Cary Grant), evades the same thugs (Adam Williams, Robert Allenstein) who abducted him, then races to Alfred Hitchcock’s mocked-up U-N, unhappy to learn that Townsend (Philip Ober) isn’t James Mason, in North By Northwest, 1959.

An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959) starring Cary Grant.

Alfred Hitchcock with one of his signature personal invitations, the theatrical trailer for North By Northwest, 1959, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason.