Hitchcock's Best Film

Rating: 10/10 (20 November 2006)

SPOILERS
This a great Hitchock film. It is actually my favorite Hitchcock film.
A man named Roger Thornhill is taken by two men to a house owned by a man named Lester Townsend. At the house Lester Townsend, who is really a man named Phillip Vandamn, tells him that he's really a man named George Kaplan. Thornhill says he isn't Kaplan and Townsend becomes very angry. Townsend's men force Thornhill to drink a bottle of bourbon. When he is drunk they put him in a stolen car and drive it next to a cliff. It appears to look like an accident. Thornhill drives down the road but is arrested.
The next day he tries to tell the police and his mother that they forced bourbon down his throat. They obviously don't believe him. To make matters worse, the police go to Townsend's house and a woman who is supposed to be Townsend's wife says that Townsend's a United Nations diplomat.
Thornhill tries to find this so called George Kaplan.
He goes to Kaplan's hotel room in which he finds a photograph. Thornhill gets a taxi and goes to the General Assembly building. Townsend is supposed to give a speech there. Thornhill asks to speak to Townsend the man who comes is not the man at the house. Thornhill shows Townsend the photograph that he had gotten. At that same moment one of the fake Townsend's accomplices throws a knife into Townsend's back. He dies. Thornhill takes the knife out of his back, which means people think he killed the real Townsend. He runs for his life.
Thornhill gets on a train heading to Chicago. There he meets Eve Kendall. She helps him avoid the police.
When they get to Chicago Eve finds one of Vandamn's accomplices. Eve just happens to be Vandamn's girlfriend. Eve then lies to Thornhill that he could meet Kaplan.
Thornhill takes a bus to a countryside next to a corn field to meet Kaplan. All of a sudden a crop duster chases Thornhill. When it disappears he tries to stop a truck, but he goes under it. Then the crop duster smashes into it. Thornhill gets away just in time. It explodes. A car stops by with some people. The people look at the explosion while Thornhill steals their car.
He goes back to a hotel. Kaplan is supposed to have a room. He checked out. He visits Eve's room. She tells him to stay away from him. When she leaves for a meeting Thornhill finds out that she is going to a art auction.
At the auction Thornhill encounters Vandamn. Vandamn gets a Himalayan statue. He still thinks he is George Kaplan. Thornhill tries to leave, but Vandamn's accomplices won't let him. Thornhill makes a scene on purpose, to avoid capture. He is arrested.
In the cop car he says that he killed Townsend. The cops take him to an airport.
At the airport Thornhill meets The Professor. He says that George Kaplan never existed. He made it up to entrap Vandamn. He tells Thornhill to help him with his agency to help get Vandamn. Vandamn is smuggling microfilmed secrets out of the country. He also says that Eve is in danger because of Thornhill.
At a cafeteria at Mount Rushmore Thornhill meets Eve and Vandamn. Thornhill tells Vandamn to leave the country for Eve. He refuses. Eve shoots Thornhill. She leaves and so does Vandamn.
Thornhill is taken away by a stretcher in a car. The car is taken into a forest. Thornhill comes out of it, unharmed. He talks to Eve. The bullets in the gun were blanks. Eve then says she wants to go with Vandamn to get more information. Then the driver knocks Thornhill out.
Thornhill wakes up in a hospital. His door is locked. He asks the Professor to get a bottle of Bourban. He goes out the door. Then Thornhill goes out the window. Thornhill goes to Vandamn's house by Mount Rushmore. He gets in the house. He overhears that one of Vandamn's accomplices found out that Eve had blanks. Vandamn then wants to throw Eve out of the plane window. Thornhill tells Eve that. When she is going to board the plane, she gets the microfilm and runs. Thornhill joins her. They go across the faces of Mount Rushmore. Vandamn dies. Eve then is knocked by Vandamn's accomplice named Leonard. Eve clings to the edge of Mount Rushmore. Leonard dies and Thornhill pulls Eve up.
The film ends with Thornhill and Eve's honeymoon.
Overall, this is a fantastic Hitchock film.
10/10
Recommended Films: Psycho, Vertigo, Saboteur, and Rear Window.