Was that Cary Grant driving?

Rating: Null/10 (29 October 2005)

He did....he drove this movie right out of the movie screen and into cinema history!!!
The best parts in North By Northwest isn't the love chemistry between Grant and Saint Marie.....they were good and professional and it wasn't something you see on Cinemax today where it's explicit enough that there's absolutely nothing left to the imagination. God, now that I've said that, I really miss movies like this where love was consensual and affectionate and to the point. I could see Grant and Marie Saint liked each other the moment they laid eyes on each other, but that comes later!
First of all, Alfred Hitchcock wants us to feel sorry for Grants character in the beginning(but oh was it so hard considering the material in it I felt like busting a gut laughing so hard). But as the movie progresses, I for one begin to think that Grant was enjoying putting the cape on and flying around like Superman, making him as he mentions in the movie to Marie Saints question of why he was divorced two times, "my exes thought I lead a dull life". Well maybe they want to reconsider that , too bad Marie Saint has you now, but will she be divorcée number three, or will she stay and maybe make you into the eternal superhero that you longed to play, and retire the monotonous personality and lay him in rest forever.
Two things I like about this movie...the plot and the crop duster scene. I was going to say Martin Landeau, but he didn't have enough screen time, and personally I thought he could play the James Mason character better, and Mason play Landeau's, but again, this is Hitchcocks visualization, not mine! The crop duster scene is always in the back of my mind, from the first time I saw it, to just tonight, I watched it again on TCM and found it chilling the first time around. I know its been on television throughout the past fifty years, never letting the scene go and playing it over and over because its a staple in movie cinema, but still, I don't watch this movie religious ally or obsessively , so its fun when I do get the chance to see this scene played out from the moment Cary Grant is contemplating, am I being set up? To the moment he is sure he is going to die!!!
Not much to say about Cary Grant, after all he possesses and holds that charm of being Cary Grant, there will be no other actor like him. A lot of people thought or think that James Stewart was perfect for this role(after all he craved for the part), but unfortunately it belongs to Carey Grant and Hitchcock , oh and Landeau and Saint, without these four essential figures, we might of saw a different North By Northwest and would it be the same? Would it have the same impact? Would we feel threatened just watching on a television screen a airplane jumping at us? Maybe, maybe it might of been better with four other individuals....but I will most likely disagree with anyone that would remotely think of such a preposterous thing!!!
You guessed it again.....10/10!!!