North By Northwest (1959)

NORTH BY NORTHWEST  (1959)  ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Alfred Hitchcock
    Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason,
    Leo G. Carroll, Martin Landau, Jessie Royce Landis,
    Adam Williams, Robert Ellenstein, Edward Platt
The wrong man (Cary Grant). The chilly blonde (Eva Marie Saint). The urbane villain (James Mason). The sinister henchman ( Martin Landau). The MacGuffin (which doesn't appear till the last ten minutes). The tightly wound set pieces (the drunk-driving scene, the crop-duster scene, the art-auction scene, the climax on top of Mount Rushmore). Bernard Herrmann's music. And Leo G. Carroll. Just about everything you'd want or expect in a Hitchcock movie turns up in this somewhere. Classic escapist suspense from the director's peak period. One of them, anyway.