Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: North by Northwest is a 1959 American thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock , starring Cary Grant , Eva Marie Saint and James Mason , and featuring Leo G. Carroll and Martin Landau .
Simplified: North by Northwest is a 1959 movie thriller from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . Alfred Hitchcock directed it , and Cary Grant starred in it .