North By Northwest

Rating: 10/10 (23 February 2008)

no doubt about it, one of Hithcock's finest. drama, suspense, mystery, the the cutting wit and humor of it all, laced with the sensual and seductive Eva Marie-Saint, the sinister and suave James Mason, and Cary Grant who was the ultimate hero. perhaps in my lifetime, i've seen it so many hundreds of times, it's close to a thousand times. as i write, it's on Turner Classic Movies. i wont go on raving about one of my top ten all time movies. i do have a point, or a question. near the end of the movie, when the Chicago Police took Thornhill to the airport, and the Professor walked him to the plane, why did Hitchcock at that time, choose to deprive us of that one bit of duologue between the two of them with the roar of plane engines. it was the briefest exchange, but what was being said has always been lost on me. anybody with any clue, or inside info?