North by Northwest
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Biography
North by Northwest is a 1959 American spy thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason. The original screenplay written by Ernest Lehman was intended to be the basis for "the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures".
"Ah, Maggie, in the world of advertising, there's no such thing as a lie. There's only the expedient exaggeration. You ought to know that."
"Mother, this is your son, Roger Thornhill...No, no, Mother. I have not been drinking. No, no. These two men, they poured a whole bottle of bourbon into me. No, they didn't give me a chaser."
"Clara Thornhill: You gentlemen aren't really trying to kill my son, are you?"
"The Professor: We do nothing...That's right, nothing. Oh, we could congratulate ourselves on a marvelous stroke of good fortune. Our non-existent decoy George Kaplan created to divert suspicion from our actual agent has fortuitously become a live decoy... What can we do to save him, without endangering our own agent?...We didn't invent our non-existent man and give him the name of George Kaplan, establish elaborate behavior patterns for him, move his prop belongings in and out of hotel rooms for our own private amusement. We created George Kaplan and labored successfully to convince Vandamm that this was our own agent hot on his trail for a desperately important reason...If we make the slightest move to suggest that there is no such agent as George Kaplan, give any hint to Vandamm that he's pursuing a decoy instead of our own agent, then our agent working right under Vandamm's very nose will immediately face suspicion, exposure and assassination, like the two others who went before."
"Vandamm: That wasn't very sporting, using real bullets."
"The Master of Suspense presents a 3000-mile chase across America!"
"The Master of Suspense weaves his greatest tale!"
"It's a deadly game of "tag" and Cary Grant is "it"!"
"It's love and murder at first sight!"
"From the killer plane in the cornfield to the cliff-hanger on George Washington's nose, it's suspense in every direction!"
"Eva Marie Saint - Eve Kendall"
"Jessie Royce Landis - Clara Thornhill"
"Leo G. Carroll - The Professor"