"Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring."Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Ernest Lehman
Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
I am with proud and awesome admiration giving the coveted title of "King of Sass" to Cary Grant for his role in NxNW. I swear. Whether riding in taxis cabs, making business deals, being kidnapped and threatened, getting a DUI, being seduced on a train, getting chased about the midwest, cropdusted, semi-seduced again, evading the police, turning himself in, being fake-murdered, breaking and entering, creeping, sneaking, hanging from George Washington's nose, or finally getting the girl, Cary Grant drips and glimmers with sass. "Mm, Where did that wit come from?" ye olde viewer wonders, "That Cary Grant-ish grin and charm, all sturdy and urban-masculine inside his gray suit?" Well, folks, it is all to clear: from his mother.
In case you haven't noticed, I love Cary Grant. I love Alfred Hitchcock. North by Northwest is a wondrous mistaken-identity-chase-crime-thriller-espionage run with the expected spice of romance that seals the deal as far as American classics go.
Run, Roger, Run!
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