Masterpiece

Rating: 8/10 (9 February 2014)

Dialogues in this movie are perfect, so many memorable quotes and great plot and story. Great film! Alfred Hitchcock is truly a genius. He's one of the few old school talents I find interesting and watchable, even if his work is dated and set in its era (the era when most sets were hopelessly phony). Cary Grant was great choice. James Mason is a consummate actor, and Hitch gives him a vehicle to enter one of his finest performances. Martin Landau, too, is appropriately chilling. You don't even get the feeling that duration of North by Northwest is more than two hours. Forty years did nothing to this piece of art. This is really one of the greatest Hitchcock's masterpieces. and i have to mention fabulous script by Ernest Lehman.