| REVIEWER | RATING & REVIEW |
 | Spike65 (11)
08/23/2007 | If I had to guess I would say this movie or Vertigo would have been the highest budget Hitchcock movies ever made. One of the best movies Cary Grant ever made as well. Good cast, well directed entertaining movie. Would love to see it on the big screen.
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 | Loerke (46)
08/17/2007 | Cary Grant as his best, as a ordinary playboy who loves his mom and just wants to go to the theater, but winds up in the midst of an international conspiracy and in the arms of a mysterious agent. The storyline sounds like James Bond but leaves those miserable Connery movies in the dustcropper.
Vies with Vertigo as my favorite Hitchcock. The two films are so different that it's impossible to compare.
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 | louiethe20th (74)
09/14/2006 | Cary Grant was such a great actor of poise and charisma. Alfred Hitchcock doesn't disappoint with this strong effort. Of course it was 1959 and the special effects were not there, but it doesn't matter.
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 | traderboy (25)
10/30/2005 |  A literally monumental cinematic landmark from Alfred Hitchcock (the most accessible, the most kinetic, and rapidly overtaking his other efforts as the most studied). How everything came together to make this romance/thriller feel simultaneously lightweight and terse is a mystery within itself. Fabulous trademark casting helped, with the balanced Cary Grant, the icy-calm calculating of Eva-Marie Saint, and the dapper menace of James Mason. Another element I've always suspected was the time it was filmed (late 1950s; you could see definite changes throughout society becoming manifest; more-relaxed forms of architecture, automotive streamlining, casual attitudes towards fashion, etc.); Hitchcock's lens captured much of it. Well-paced most of the way, but (for me) it fell askance at Rushmore (a poorly-lit, uneven sequence that couldn't keep the audience informed as to character positioning). Even with the minuscule flaws, I'll put this up against ANY actioner that Gollywood can shove on a screen today. If this isn't in your collection in some form, you're a celluloid Philistine who's run out of excuses.
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 | GenghisTheHun (168)
08/29/2005 | Cary Grant clambering over Mount Rushmore! This is one of the great Hitchcock presentations. Watch for the little kid covering his ears at the shooting scene in the restaurant at Mount Rushmore. The scene had gone through sevaral takes and the little kid knew when the gunfire was to start. I wonder why the lemmings don't try to re-make this masterpiece?
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 | Rocket Robin Hood (1)
04/29/2005 | Top notch film from the master of
suspense. Excellent in every way.
Wonderful production values and
art direction. Great cast, terrific
film. Beats just about everything
made in the past 20 years.
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 | jjm1965 (0)
12/01/2004 | My favorite Hitchcock movie, and one of my top 10 all-time favorites. Well acted by everyone, even those w/ little or no speaking lines.
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 | ChatnChew (0)
11/16/2004 |
Perfect in every way. Romance, suspense, pacing. Top of the line Hitchcock.
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 | kompewter (0)
06/29/2004 | I think that Bernard Herrman deserves a ton of credit for providing the soundtrack to many a Hitchcock classic. I anyone has heard the frenzied screeching in Psycho, or the spacey sounds of The Day the Earth Stood Still, that was his doing.
Favourite quote for Northwest: That plane's dustin' crops where there ain't no crops!
Little known fact: Hitchcock originally planned on calling the film The Man On Lincoln's Nose, but the national park people who handled Mt. Rushmore's publicity thought that the title was offensive to the treasured monument.
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 | jaa2x (0)
06/22/2004 | One of the most entertaining movies of all time!
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 | jaywilton (26)
03/04/2004 | The movie that invented rock climbing.Mount Rushmore(Eve Marie Saint and Cary Grant) outclimb great bad guys-James Mason and Martin Landau.
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 | irishgit (138)
02/29/2004 | In the top 5 of Hitchcock's canon, and a great dramatic/comedic performace by Grant. The famous scene of the plane dusting crops where there ain't no crops is Hitchcock at his best, where surprise comes from nowhere, and danger is in the innocuous.
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| Hardwire (2)
08/05/2003 | I thought this was about to knock off Field of Dreams as my favorite movie ever through about the first hour. But then it slowed down, and now it probably wouldn't make my top 10. It's a goofy no-stop action packed Hitchcock thriller. How a television producer managed to overcome all of those obstacles is beyond me.
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 | jbiscuit1 (0)
08/02/2003 | Excellent story: This tale of mistaken identity is fabulous. Cary Grant is brilliant in one of the best Hitchcock films I've ever seen. If you like mystery suspense, you will enjoy this film.
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| mistweave (0)
07/20/2003 | A great Hitchcock classic! Cary Grant is very suave as the man whose identity is mistaken for a spy. Watching him deal with his pursuers makes for some great scenes, including the famous one of Cary Grant being chased by a crop duster. One of the top Hitchcock films and highly recommended!
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| ozzymaniac (1)
06/17/2003 | My favorite Hitchcock movie, because it packs so much suspense and fun into one movie.
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| Saruman (0)
10/23/2002 |
If Cary Grant had turned out to be the agent after all, it wouldn't have been a Hitchcock film. That kind of twist came in later. Hitch was a master of storytelling and tension. I think the closest he comes to surprising us is in "Vertigo", and that revelation isn't totally unexpected.
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| Raskolnikov (0)
10/10/2002 |
I rate this one "EW", for Endlessly Watchable. Practically perfect in every aspect.
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| Jumping Jack Flash (0)
07/25/2002 | One of Hitchcock's 3 or 4 best. The story is a representation of one of Hitch's most prevalent themes in his work-the innocent man wrongly accused. Cary Grant is never better than in this film as the socialite who is mistaken for a spy and gets embroiled in a bad situation. Eva-Marie Saint is also very good at filling in the customary "Hitchcock blonde". James Mason is great at being subtly bad, and he goes out on a great closing line. Martin Landau is just plain creepy as the murderous henchman. The crop-duster scene is one of the great images in cinema, and the final shot (a train going into a tunnel) is so brilliantly heavy in the innuendo department that I wonder how Hitch got away with it in 1959. Not as deep or as talked-about as "Vertigo", but this film is still one of the Great Films, and it is the ultimate adventure-thriller film.
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 | john davies (2)
01/23/2002 | Though Vertigo has more depth and mystery,this is for me not only the definitive Hitchcock thriller but the most purely enjoyable and exciting adventure on film!
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 | thevirus07042 (0)
11/22/2001 | I am a huge Hitchcock fan. I've seen sooooo ooooo many of his movies. Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, Notorious, Birds, Wow. But why is this movie considered Hitchcock's second/third best by most people? I like it a lot but it's not in the Top 10 Hitchcocks and is not Top 100 quality. Besides the "classic scene" sayings, why is this film so amazing? Besides it being popular, why is this so amazing? Please tell me, someone. Tell me. Please. Someone, tell me please. Good answer, N by N fans. Great response.
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| Magic621 (0)
10/19/2001 | The best Hitchcock movie. How this gets rated lower than Psycho, which is horrifically overrated, is beyond me. Cary Grant at his smooth-talking best, Eva Marie Saint is beautiful and stylish as the damsel in distress, and James Mason does a wonderful job portraying the slick, urbane criminal. From the acting to the cinematography to Bernard Herrmann's score, this movie is perfection.
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| melimel (0)
07/04/2001 | Disappointment is not a word that usually describes a Hitchcock movie, but this one surly is. The twist and turns in this movie was so predictable. If Grant turned out to be the agent after all that everyone thought he was, then it would have been a better movie. The plane scene was boring and the ending was even worst. Wake up critics and lets not make this movie as good as it is. Because it’s not.
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| joeAwaz (0)
05/07/2001 | First class, toungue-in-cheek suspense thriller by the greatest filmmaker of all time! North By Northwest does not deserve to be this low on the list at all! I would think that such an entertaining movie would TOP the list!
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| nrice (0)
10/19/2000 | HITCHCOCK AGAIN! I never saw Cary Grant in a movie before this and he's a great actor.
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| mkno10320om (0)
08/31/2000 | One of my favorite Hitchcock movies (and I've seen almost all of them). Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint have amazing chemistry and the suspense is equally magical.
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 | Ruby (15)
12/17/1999 | Not my favorite Hitchcock movie, but it's got two absolute classic scenes (the attack from the cropdusting plane and the final scene at Mount Rushmore).
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| CDHO1194om (0)
11/14/1999 | I love Hitchcock. Also Airplans
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