Not Rot

Rating: Null/10 (24 March 2006)

Mr. Thornhill's monogrammed handkerchief reads: ROT. The film is not. Backed by Ernest Lehman's brilliant screenplay, Hitch served up grand cross-country escapist entertainment. From the opening notes of Herrmann's fabulous soundtrack over fabulous credits by Saul Bass, we are plunged into this grand tale.
Cary Grant is an absolute classic - as is his perfect gray suit. James Mason is gleefully wicked, Martin Landau is creepily evil and Eva Marie Saint never looked better than she did in that scarlet dress.
From the god's point-of-view shot of the United Nations to the editing of the airplane sequence to Cary scrambling around Mount Rushmore, it is worth seeing again and again.