Excellent

Rating: 10/10 (3 January 2009)

SPOILER ALERT! Arguably Hitchcock's most flat out entertaining movie. It's like NOTORIOUS-lite. Cary Grant is a too often married (and divorced) ad exec who finds himself in trouble when he's mistaken for a government agent. Nasty James Mason and his fey accomplice Martin Landau chase Grant throughout the US leading up to a now famous climax atop Mt. Rushmore. Eva Marie Saint is the REAL govt. agent also caught up in the mix. It's directed at break neck speed with Hitchcock having A LOT of fun (note that final shot!). Grant is splendid as is the striking Saint and the Mason/Landau dynamic is pretty strange. The extremely clever screenplay is by Ernest Lehman and the cast includes the dependable Leo G. Carroll and Jessie Royce Landis (as Grant's mother!)