Information
- BFI identifier57427
- Date1959 (Copyright)
- Production countryUSA
- Production company
- SynopsisThriller. New York advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill is mistaken by a gang of spies for a Federal agent named George Kaplan. They make various attempts on his life and make him look like a murder suspect at the United Nations building. He flees their clutches, crossing America by train and coach, and is menaced by a cropduster, while he uncovers a plot involving smuggled microfilm. He faces the villains in a final showdown on Mount Rushmore. (Synopsis)
- Genre
- Subject
- Credits
- CastCary Grant (Roger O. Thornhill)
Eva Marie Saint (Eve Kendall)
James Mason (Phillip Vandamm)
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Title
North by Northwest (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/6F97-0EA5-B406-1B29-4C38-KCategory
Fiction- Collections
- Film / Video
35mm Colour Positive - Safety - Combined - Master
35mm Colour Positive - Acetate - Combined - Master
VHS cassette - Video - Status pending
view all - Scripts / DocumentsScript - Script type: Shooting script - with revisions - SCR-577
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-57427
Small pressbook held.
view all - Posters / DesignsPoster: film - Single sheet landscape - PD-14256
Poster: film - Single sheet landscape - PD-22469
view all - StillsPhotograph: print - Portrait - Black and White - bfi-00o-bus
Photograph: print - Portrait - Black and White - bfi-00o-3u9
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00o-3u8
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00o-0mp
Photograph: publicity - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00o-6kg
view all - ArticlesPremiere v14 n8 April 2001 - Note, ScriptFilm Studies n2 Spring 2000 - ArticleCinema Journal v36 n4 Summer 1997 - ArticleLegend n22 Winter 1996/97 - Soundtrack Reviewview all
- Books
- Digital documentsBFI Southbank Programme Note: August / September 1999
BFI Southbank Programme Notes September 2019
available to view in BFI Reuben Library
- +North by Northwest
Work - 57427 - 1959 (Copyright)
USA - Film - Fiction
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