North By North West or How couldn't Hitch & Grant win a Oscar!

Rating: 10/10 (29 January 2008)

Alfred Hitchcock is arguably if not the greatest director of all time, certainly one of the top two or three! And Cary Grant by AFI's own poll is the second greatest actor of all time. So how could neither of them or both of them win an Oscar for this movie! NBNW is a two plus hour thrill ride from the moment of Thornhill's abduction to the cut away as the train enters the tunnel at the end! NBNW keeps you attention without all of the dumbing down of the post Star Wars era that permeates the cinema today. (See the original Rollerball vs the remake for proof of this remark!) Hitch is the master at so many cinematic techniques that the so called greats use today, and Grant is still copied for his suave and distinguished on screen presence.
NBNW is the highlight of Hitch's career to that point and the ultimate Grant role! And to point out the errors in this film is just sour grapes cause every film of today has its errors, most also lack the quality of a Hitchcock/Grant film!