Rediscover the unique atmosphere of Alfred Hitchcock with this superb North by Northwest Poster that will give you chills!
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Description of this North by Northwest Poster
North by Northwest is a 1959 American spy thriller film, produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason. The screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, who wanted to write “the Hitchcock film to end all Hitchcock films.” North by Northwest is a story of mistaken identity, with an innocent man pursued across the United States by agents of a mysterious organization who attempt to stop him from blocking their plan to smuggle microfilms containing government secrets out of the country. It is one of several Hitchcock films to feature a score by Bernard Herrmann and an opening title sequence by graphic designer Saul Bass, and is the first to make extended use of kinetic typography in its credits. North by Northwest is among Hitchcock’s canonical films of the 1950s and is often cited as one of the greatest films of all time. It was selected in 1995 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” After its initial screening, critics for The New Yorker and The New York Times immediately hailed it as a masterpiece of comic and sophisticated self-parody. In 1958, in a New York City hotel bar, a waiter calls out for “George Kaplan” after a pair of thugs ask him to. While advertising executive Roger Thornhill calls the same waiter, he is mistaken for Kaplan, kidnapped by the thugs, and taken to Lester Townsend’s estate. He is interrogated by spy Phillip Vandamm, a Cold War enemy of the United States, who poses as Townsend to Thornhill. Vandamm arranges for Thornhill’s death in a staged drunken car crash. Thornhill survives but is unable to convince his mother and the police of what happened, even after visiting Townsend’s estate. During this visit, Thornhill learns that Townsend is a United Nations diplomat. Thornhill and his mother go to Kaplan’s empty hotel room. After Thornhill answers Kaplan’s phone, the thugs, who had called the number from the lobby, give chase. Thornhill goes to the United Nations General Assembly building to meet Townsend, who is a different man than Vandamm. One of the pursuers throws a knife, killing Townsend, who collapses in Thornhill’s arms. Thornhill is photographed grabbing the knife, making it appear he is the murderer; he then flees, attempting to find the real Kaplan. An unnamed government intelligence agency realizes that Thornhill has been mistaken for Kaplan, but decides not to rescue him for fear of compromising their operation: Kaplan is a nonexistent agent they created to confuse and distract Vandamm. Thornhill boards the 20th Century Limited train to Chicago, where he meets Eve Kendall, who is hiding him from the police. They establish a rapport—on Kendall’s part because she is secretly working with Vandamm—and she tells Thornhill that she has arranged for Kaplan to meet him at a remote rural bus stop. Thornhill waits there but is attacked by a crop duster plane. After attempting to hide in a cornfield, he steps in front of a speeding fuel truck; it brakes, and the plane crashes into him, allowing him to escape. Thornhill arrives at Kaplan’s hotel in Chicago and learns that Kaplan had checked out before the time Kendall claims to have spoken to him. Thornhill goes to her room and confronts her, but she leaves. He follows her to an art auction, where he finds Vandamm buying a Mexican Purépecha statue. Vandamm leaves his henchmen to deal with Thornhill; To escape, Thornhill disrupts the auction until the police are called to remove him. He claims to be the fugitive murderer, but they turn him over to the head of the government agency, “The Professor,” who reveals that Kaplan was invented to distract Vandamm from the real government agent: Eve Kendall. Thornhill agrees to help maintain his cover. At the Mount Rushmore Visitor Center, Thornhill—now willingly playing Kaplan—negotiates Vandamm’s turnover so that Kendall can be arrested. Kendall then shoots Thornhill, apparently fatally, and flees; it turns out her gun was loaded with blanks. Afterward, the Professor arranges a meeting between Thornhill and Kendall. Thornhill learns that Kendall is to leave on a plane with Vandamm and his henchman Leonard. He tries to dissuade her from leaving but is knocked unconscious and locked in a hospital room. Thornhill escapes the professor’s custody and goes to Vandamm’s house to save Kendall. In the house, Thornhill hears that the sculpture contains microfilm and that Leonard has discovered the remaining blanks in Kendall’s gun. Vandamm indicates that he will kill Kendall by throwing her out of the plane. Thornhill manages to warn her with a surreptitious note. Vandamm, Leonard, and Kendall head to the plane. As Vandamm boards, Kendall takes the sculpture and runs toward Thornhill, who gives chase. They flee to the top of Mount Rushmore. As they descend the mountain, they are pursued by Vandamm’s henchmen, including Leonard, who is shot and killed by a park ranger. Vandamm is stopped by the professor.
Meanwhile, Kendall clings to the mountain with her fingertips. Thornhill bends down to pull her up, and the scene cuts in two: he pulls her—now the new Mrs. Thornhill—into the top bunk of a train entering a tunnel.