North by Northwest (1959) Revisit

Dana and Tom revisit one of the seminal classics of Alfred Hitchcock, North by Northwest: written by Ernest Lehman; starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, and Martin Landau.

Plot Summary: Madison Avenue Ad Man, Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant), is mistaken for George Kaplan, a government agent, is kidnapped, and taken to meet a mysterious man Lester Townsend (James Mason). The man wants to know what information he has. Unable to answer, Thornhill is forced to drink excessively and put in a car for a staged accident. While Thornhill is able to escape, he is still in imminent danger, and needs to piece together what happened. However, when Thornhill meets the real Townsend, Townsend is suddenly murdered, and Thornhill becomes the prime suspect. Now sought for murder, he sets out to find the real Kaplan. Aided by Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint), Thornhill travels across country, side-stepping attempts to kill him, to finally clear his name.

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