

North by Northwest
It's a deadly game of "tag" and Cary Grant is "it"!
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
7- D7/10
DanDare
5/20/2017
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 …
- T9/10
tmdb47633491
4/7/2018
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…
- J10/10
John Chard
4/22/2019
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…
- W6/10
Wuchak
12/26/2019
***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…
- J7/10
James
10/20/2023
Not one time did I think “This is good enough to deserve being on his (Hitchcock’s) filmography.
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