Alfred Hitchcock's North By North West, released in 1959 is a suspense-thriller film that I watched in my Film Studies class. Starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint, it tells the story of a middle-aged man (Cary Grant) who is wrongfully accused of being a CIA agent by the name of George Caplin. The movie follows him as he flees from his kidnappers and falls in love with the young and beautiful Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint) on the way. Although I did not absolutely love the film, it had solid acting and is one of MGM Picture's films that are worth seeing.
I was very impressed by the acting of all the leading roles in this film. Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint did spectacular jobs of holding the tension that makes the movie a thriller, as well as channelling their emotions clearly to the audience in order to move along the romantic elements of the plot. I found Alfred Hitchcock's classic brief cameo in the beginning of the film, in which he is seen boarding a bus, very amusing. A director who places special things in his films for the audience to notice provokes the viewer to be more attentive.
Although I sometimes found the plot confusing, the ending tied everything up nicely and left me satisfied. I was very intrigued by how the director so sneakily dropped a clue to how the main mystery of the story developed in the beginning of the film. I would recommend this film to anyone above the age of 12 who enjoys thrillers, romance, suspense or action.
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