North By Northwest [VHS]

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Actor: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Color
Running Time: 136 minutes
Release Date: 1996-11-12
Audience Rating: Unrated
Publisher: MGM
Studio: MGM

VHS Movie Reviews of North By Northwest [VHS]

Movie Review: Excellent movie
Summary: 5 Stars

North by Northwest not only has the best actors starring in the movie, Cary Grant, Eve Marie Saint and James Mason. It also has who might be considered one of
the greatest film directors ever! Alfred Hitchcock. Combine a great story these great actors and a world class director and made in 1958 when films were much better
than 50 years later, and you have a fantastic motion picture. I bought the Blu Ray version and it is worth the extra money. Well worth the time it takes to watch.

Movie Review: North by Northwest - Blu Ray
Summary: 4 Stars

One of Alfred Hitchock's best films. To see a movie that I have watched a hundred times in theatres, VHS, DVD and now on Blu-Ray. The picture is fantastic, it adds to that "Movie Experience". It is a pleasure to see it on Blu-Ray and, at that great price, it was hard to pass up.

Movie Review: Best Hitchcock Movie
Summary: 5 Stars

This is probably the best Alfred Hitchcock movie of them all. A true classic. And the price on Amazon beats everyone.

Movie Review: north by northwest
Summary: 5 Stars

This is one of my all time favorite movies, and the Blu-ray is wonderful. Would recommend this to any Hitchcock fan

Movie Review: Fabulous restoration!!!
Summary: 4 Stars

We all know the film is a masterpiece but now, with this new edition, we can watch it in the best possible conditions. The work on the restoration and on the blu-ray edition is fabulous! It's like if it had been filmed last year! Picture and sound have been improved at their best. I've only given 4 stars because the special features section has no foreign subtitles. Warner haven't done a good job with the subtitles on the bonus features. The back cover says "French, Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese" but NO, there are only English subtitles. It's a deceptive advertising, a big mistake and a total disappointment because the special features section contains many interesting documents. Unfortunately, foreign buyers can't appreciate that section! I've checked the French blu-ray edition and it is absolutely the same mistake. So, if you want the subtitles on the special features, forget that blu-ray edition!

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Summary of North By Northwest [VHS]

A strong candidate for the most sheerly entertaining and enjoyable movie ever made by a Hollywood studio (with Citizen Kane, Only Angels Have Wings and Trouble in Paradise running neck and neck). Positioned between the much heavier and more profoundly disturbing Vertigo (1958) and the stark horror of Psycho (1960), North by Northwest (1959) is Alfred Hitchcock at his most effervescent in a romantic comedy-thriller that also features one of the definitive Cary Grant performances. Which is not to say that this is just "Hitchcock Lite"; seminal Hitchcock critic Robin Wood (in his book Hitchcock's Films Revisited) makes an airtight case for this glossy MGM production as one of The Master's "unbroken series of masterpieces from Vertigo to Marnie." It's a classic Hitchcock Wrong Man scenario: Grant is Roger O. Thornhill (initials ROT), an advertising executive who is mistaken by enemy spies for a U.S. undercover agent named George Kaplan. Convinced these sinister fellows (James Mason as the boss, and Martin Landau as his henchman) are trying to kill him, Roger flees and meets a sexy Stranger on a Train (Eva Marie Saint), with whom he engages in one of the longest, most convolutedly choreographed kisses in screen history. And, of course, there are the famous set pieces: the stabbing at the United Nations, the crop-duster plane attack in the cornfield (where a pedestrian has no place to hide), and the cliffhanger finale atop the stone faces of Mount Rushmore. Plus a sparkling Ernest Lehman script and that pulse-quickening Bernard Herrmann score. What more could a moviegoer possibly desire? --Jim Emerson

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