Equal parts sly identity crisis, suspenseful cross-continental chase, and cool romance, North By Northwest is one of Hitchcock's most enjoyable films.

Rating: 10/10 (10 May 2010)

The film is generally cited as the first to feature extended use of kinetic typography in its opening credits. A businessman (Cary Grant) is mistaken for a spy, and enemy agents then try to kill him because he knows too much.
North By Northwest is a delightful mixture: a gorgeous-looking chase comedy-thriller with a touch of sex, a kind of compendium of director Alfred Hitchcock's best work. Grant is suave and dashing even by his own standards, and two scenes, one involving the crop-dusting plane, the other set at Mount Rushmore, will be deemed peerless for as long as cinema exists.