North By Northwest

Rating: 10/10 (24 July 2005)

The movie "North by Northwest" is in my top 10 movies of all time. It combines great suspense, sexual tension between Cary Grant and Eve Saint Marie, Hitchcock's beautiful use of location, color, film angles and monumental scenery. It also wouldn't have been the great movie it is without the evil characters portrayed by James Mason and Martin Landeau and cold blooded government spy played by Lewis J. Carroll, who baby boomers will remember from the TV "Topper" series. North by Northwest is one of those movies one can watch dozens of times and still notice something new. There doesn't seem to be anything that could have been changed in the movie without making it a less than perfect production.