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North by Northwest (1959)

Rating:No Rating
Genre:Suspense/Thriller, Classic
Release Date:October 22, 1999
Running time:136 minutes
Cast:Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G Carroll
Director:Alfred Hitchcock
Producer:Alfred Hitchcock
Writer:Ernest Lehman
Distributor:Turner Entertainment

Description: A suave, succesful New York advertising executive finds himself, through a case of mistaken identity, embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder that takes him across the country to prove his innocence to the police and get an evil crime syndicate, looking for a lost microfilm, off his tail.

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