North by Northwest

Alfred Hitchcock delivers a series of classic set-pieces in his thriller featuring Cary Grant as an advertising exec who is mistaken for a spy.

  • Director

    Alfred Hitchcock

  • With

    Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau

  • USA 1959. 136min

  • Digital 4K

  • Certificate

    PG

Evoking the Western in the way it employs the iconography of the American landscape, Hitchcock’s final collaboration with Grant is a doozy. Unfolding as a series of rarely equalled set-pieces, everything here is on point: Bernard Herrmann’s thrilling score, Ernest Lehman’s superb script, Robert Burks’ rich and colourful cinematography, and both Grant’s unflappable charm and his perfectly fitted Savile Row suits. Hitchcock’s action masterpiece is full-throttle cinema.