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North By Northwest


     
  North By Northwest Review
Tookey's Rating
10 /10
 
Average Rating
9.61 /10
 
Starring
Cary Grant , Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
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Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Written by: Ernest Lehman

 
 
 
Released: 1959
   
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Origin: US
   
Length: 136
 
 


 
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Hitchcock in his late middle-age is becoming prolix. It is hard to believe that a director so green-fingered at making a plot sprout should be so butterfingered in the business of pruning... [It] huffs and puffs to its predictable close. Longwindedly.
(Paul Dehn, News Chronicle)
Hitchcock has a lot in common with the late Cecil B. De Mille. Though he has too much levity and cynicism to bother with De Mille's Messages, the maestri are alike in their technical mastery... Mr. Hitchcock's puppets walk and talk in a bright Charlie McCarthy fashion: they are jerked this way and that at the master's whim. But outside the great wide VistaVision Never Never Land they have no life to lose.
(Daily Telegraph)

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