Entertaining, if not deep, Hitchcock road movie.

Rating: Null/10 (7 October 2004)

When you take this story outside the realm of Hitchcock and Grant, and think about the story, it is a very simple and uninspirational one. For my viewing time and pleasure, there are very many movies, both Classic and modern, that are better than its rating would indicate. Still, Cary Grant and Eva Saint are fun to watch, and we get to see an interesting cross-section of the US. The DVD has a superb video transfer, almost film-like on a big screen, HDTV. Perhaps even better than what audiences saw in the theater back in 1959.
SPOILERS FOLLOW, quit reading, OK!? Grant is a simple business man who gets mistaken for an undercover agent by the bad guys, so they kidnap him and the rest of the movie is his escaping and trying to find out what is really going on. He meets Saint on a train, she hides him in her compartment, but she is really working, under threat, for the bad guys. The chase takes Grant to a rural road in Illinois where the famous airplane scene takes place, ending when the plane crashes and explodes into a fuel truck. Then he ends up in South Dakota, and an exciting chase scene at Mount Rushmore, then at the crook boss's house, where Grant foils their plan to take Saint out of the country. The crooks get caught, it turns out the agent he was mistaken for was a phantom anyway, set up for covert purposes.