Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill, protagonist in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959 ... regarding the agreement were about to be borne out. The press was reacting enthusiastically to ...

The lack of room to stage a movie scene turned out to be irrelevant. In an after-dinner speech, Hitchcock told the story of how he tried to get permission to film: "In North by Northwest during ...

But his 1959 classic North By Northwest really ought to be unstageable. It starts out in New York before heading to the Prairies, and reaching its peak on the summit of Mount Rushmore. But all ...