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Wow! What an intense action-packed thrill ride this film turned out to be. It is a really fun adventure that takes you cross-country and finding different ways to survive. I just love cat-and-mouse aka films involving fugitives and hostages because they are really suspensful and they are always packed with entertainment. I loved pretty much everything about North By Northwest. It is an absolute masterpiece from a director and actor who have been really well remembered for this film. Once, the opening credits rolled in this film, I was literally glued to it for the rest of the film because it was so good and also because of the intense thrill ride that it was.
This was my first Cary Grant film that I saw and I am glad I saw him in North By Northwest first because I think it is his most famous film along with Arsenic And Old Lace, None But The Lonely Heart and Penny Serenade. Cary Grant was probably the best fit for this film especially with the classic image of him running in the countryside with a plane behind and rushing towards him which appears on my picture review. Eva Marie Saint has risen even higher after her Oscar winning performance in On The Waterfront and she was absolutely fantastic in this film which I was sort of expecting.
Hitchcock doesn't make North By Northwest as suspensful in a scary way as he has done with some of his films like Psycho and The Birds. It is probably just as tense as Rear Window, Rebecca and Vertigo but obviously in a different way because all of the stories are different. Hitchcock always uses suspense in his films that makes us feel the same way because they're thrillers but all of his films are different kinds of thrillers. Some are scary, some are funny and some are tense but neither scary nor funny. Because there have been a few Hitchcock remakes such as Rear Window and Psycho, I seriously hope that there won't be a remake of North By Northwest or Vertigo, Rebecca or Shadow Of A Doubt. There is a The Birds remake coming out which is bloody annoying but it is pretty predictable that it is going to be shite anyway. Two of my 5-star Hitchcock films are his two most underrated films because they don't earn as much credit as one of the late great directors best films like Psycho, Rear Window and Vertigo do.
It is my fourth favourite Hitchcock film after Rear Window, Vertigo and Psycho. It is my favourite film of 1959 and that was a great year for a cinema from the very early past of the world of cinema. North By Northwest is one of the best thrillers ever made and it is one of the best films ever made as well. Masterpiece!!!
10/10
