North By Northwest A Great Geographic Film ****

Rating: 9/10 (4 March 2007)

Alfred Hitchcock at his very best with this 1959 suspense thriller.
Advertising executive Cary Grant becomes unwittingly involved with spies when he is confused for someone else. The problem is that Kaplan, the someone else that he is confused with, never existed. The latter name was created by the CIA to deflect suspicion on one of their own operatives, Eva Marie Saint who has infiltrated the spy mob led by an angry James Mason.
Jesse Royce Landis adds come highlights as Grant's mother.
The scenery is sumptuous and that airplane scene along with those at Mt. Rushmore are great, even if most of the dangerous scenes at "Rushmore" were filmed at Culver City, California.