North by Northwest
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Actor: Bill Catching, Ed Binns, Lawrence Dobkin, Leo G. Carroll, Philip CoolidgePrimary Contributor: Cary Grant
Primary Contributor: Eva Marie Saint
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.75:1
Running Time: 136 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-08-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Turner Home Ent
DVD Reviews of North by Northwest
DVD Review: DVD stops working 1/2 way through
Summary: 1 Stars
This is one of my favorite Hitchcock films. Unfortunately the DVD that I bought from Amazon marketplace is defective. I didn't try to watch this until after the return period (so money spent was lost). Midway through the film, when Cary Grant is at the auction house, the DVD starts showing just pixels, skips, and nothing further can be seen even when trying to advance to other scenes. The DVD disc itself was brand new, no scratches, so there must have been something wrong with this batch. I hope Warner re-releases this soon.DVD Review: Arrived damaged
Summary: 1 Stars
The DVD arrived damaged and I had to return it for a refund, a replacement was not an option.DVD Review: One of the best ever....
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is truly iconic. The look of the cityscape, the beehive activity depicted from the opening frames is classic. People use to dress in those days and they actually cared how they looked. Grant's suit set the standard for decades.
While this film is fantastic - from beginning to end, it angers me to see the lack of recognition over the last half-century for Bernard Herrmann's music. I've never heard a movie score so stimulating, from the moment the MGM lion leaves the screen to the ending scene - incredible.
Then it struck me: Philip Glass is a an out-in-out thief. He ripped Herrmann off - completely. Glass is a total fraud. Herrmann's composition and arrangement in this movie has been cannibalized and stolen by Glass in many of his supposed "classic" offerings. A true crime.
DVD Review: great seller but incomplete dvd
Summary: 4 Stars
I received this dvd and was disappointed that it only went to scene 32. When I emailed the seller, they immediately offered a prepaid return and sent me another dvd. They never received my return in the mail, but sent a replacement anyway. The new DVD, brand new and in the wrapper, also only went to scene 32. While I am very satisfied with the response of the seller and rate them a 5/5 stars, I think I will write to the company, warnervideo, and ask them to replace the DVD.DVD Review: One of Hitchcock's best
Summary: 5 Stars
Have watched this movie several times over the years and it never gets old. The usual Hitchcock suspense and drama are present, but the combination of Eva Marie Saint and Cary Grant is superb. Great flick.
Description of North by Northwest
Cary Grant teams with director Alfred Hitchcock for the fourth and final time in this superlative espionage caper judged on of the American Film Institute's Top-100 American Films and spruced up with a new digital transfer and remixed Dolby Digital Stereo. He plays a Manhattan advertising executive plunged into a realm of spy (James Mason) and counterspy (Eva Marie Saint) and variously abducted, framed for murder, chased and in another signature set piece, crop-dusted. He also holds on for dear life from the facial features of the Presidents on Mount Rushmore (backlot sets were used). But don't expect the Master of Suspense to leave star or audience hanging.A strong candidate for the most sheerly entertaining and enjoyable movie ever made by a Hollywood studio (with Citizen Kane, Only Angels Have Wings and Trouble in Paradise running neck and neck). Positioned between the much heavier and more profoundly disturbing Vertigo (1958) and the stark horror of Psycho (1960), North by Northwest (1959) is Alfred Hitchcock at his most effervescent in a romantic comedy-thriller that also features one of the definitive Cary Grant performances. Which is not to say that this is just "Hitchcock Lite"; seminal Hitchcock critic Robin Wood (in his book Hitchcock's Films Revisited) makes an airtight case for this glossy MGM production as one of The Master's "unbroken series of masterpieces from Vertigo to Marnie." It's a classic Hitchcock Wrong Man scenario: Grant is Roger O. Thornhill (initials ROT), an advertising executive who is mistaken by enemy spies for a U.S. undercover agent named George Kaplan. Convinced these sinister fellows (James Mason as the boss, and Martin Landau as his henchman) are trying to kill him, Roger flees and meets a sexy Stranger on a Train (Eva Marie Saint), with whom he engages in one of the longest, most convolutedly choreographed kisses in screen history. And, of course, there are the famous set pieces: the stabbing at the United Nations, the crop-duster plane attack in the cornfield (where a pedestrian has no place to hide), and the cliffhanger finale atop the stone faces of Mount Rushmore. Plus a sparkling Ernest Lehman script and that pulse-quickening Bernard Herrmann score. What more could a moviegoer possibly desire? --Jim Emerson
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