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North by Northwest

It's a deadly game of "tag" and Cary Grant is "it"!

8.0(4,677)19592h 17m33

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

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Status
Released
Budget
$4M
Box office
$13.3M
Language
English
  • new york city
  • assassination
  • undercover agent
  • espionage
  • spy
  • cold war
  • mistaken identity
  • deception
  • romance
  • fugitive
  • on the run
  • advertising

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereChicago, Illinois1 Jul 1959
    • PremiereLos Angeles, California17 Jul 1959
    • TheatricalNew York City, New York6 Aug 1959
    • TheatricalG18 Dec 1959
    • TheatricalGAMC Fan Faves8 Oct 2026
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical (limited)London15 Oct 1959
    • TheatricalPG20 Nov 1959
    • TheatricalPGRe-Release19 Jun 2009
  • United Arab EmiratesAE

    • PhysicalBlu-ray16 Nov 2009
  • AustraliaAU

    • TheatricalPG27 Nov 1959
    • TheatricalRe-Release30 Jul 1998
  • CanadaCA

    • Theatrical11 Sept 1959
    • TheatricalPG65th Anniversary Re-Release31 Oct 2024
  • ArgentinaAR

    • Theatrical19 Oct 1959
  • AustriaAT

    • Theatrical1225 Dec 1959
  • BelgiumBE

    • Theatrical (limited)12Brussels13 Nov 1959
  • BrazilBR

    • Theatrical2 Sept 1959
    • Physical1412 Jul 2010
  • ChinaCN

    • PremiereShanghai International Film Festival16 Jun 2009
  • CzechiaCZ

    • PhysicalUDVD1 Apr 2001
    • Theatrical11 Jan 2007
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical16 Jan 1961

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North by Northwest was released on 6 August 1959.

Audience reviews

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  • D

    DanDare

    5/20/2017

    7/10

    North by Northwest is famous for its famous action sequences such as hanging on Mount Rushmore and the crop duster plane scene. Essentially it is a film of mistaken identity as advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is mistaken for George Kaplan by some bad guys in league with a foreign power presumably Russian. The trouble is Kaplan is a made up operative created by the CIA to flush out the film's …

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    tmdb47633491

    4/7/2018

    9/10

    I hate user/critic review websites strictly because of movies like this. People will go see like, Gran Torino, be entertained, admire a couple symmetrical shots and smooth camera pans or whatever, and rate the thing a 4.5/5, 9/10, 95%, etc. But then there are movies that have a ten minute chase scene with Cary Grant scaling down Mount Rushmore, every second of which you're screaming at the screen. Of course my most p…

  • J

    John Chard

    4/22/2019

    10/10

    Sometimes the truth does taste like a mouthful of worms. Roger O Thornhill is a harmless and amiable advertising executive who is absurdly mistaken for a government agent by a gang of ruthless spies. Forced to go out on the lam, Thornhill lurches from one perilous scenario to another. Can he survive to prove his innocence? Is the gorgeous blonde who is helping him really a friend? All will be revealed in Alfred Hi…

  • W

    Wuchak

    12/26/2019

    6/10

    ***It has its points of interest, but any 60’s Bond flick is a better choice*** When an ad executive in Manhattan (Gary Cooper) is mistaken for a government agent by a foreign spy & his cronies (James Mason, et al.) he finds himself a fugitive traveling by train to Chicago wherein he meets a woman that seems to have his favor (Eva Marie Saint). After a curious encounter with a crop dusting plane everything culmina…

  • J

    James

    10/20/2023

    7/10

    Not one time did I think “This is good enough to deserve being on his (Hitchcock’s) filmography.

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