NORTH BY NORTHWEST Special Presentations

In Hitchcock/Truffaut, his essential book-length interview with Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffout states that NORTH BY NORTHWEST epitomizes the whole of the director’s work in America Cory Grant, at his most Cary Grant plays Roger 0. Thornhill (the “O.” doesn’t stand for anything, but makes for a great monogram) He’s a Madison Avenue ad man mistaken for an international superspy, hunted by the law for a murder he did not commit, and chased across America by bad guy s who, among other things, dabble in the importing/exporting of “government secrets” la Hitchcock MacGuffin in its purest, vaguest form) The film features two of the most famous sequences in movie history-the tense crop dusting scene and the wild finale set atop Mt. Rushmore NORTH BY NORTHWEST is a tout masterpiece of storytelling, and one of the finest films by one of Hollywood’s great directors.