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North by Northwest (1959)

Nominated for the Academy Award for art direction/set decoration, editing, and original screenplay.

Won the American Film Institute's top one hundred movies of all time: number forty.

Arguably Hitchcock's best work.  Most films will someday be dated and fit into a lump of time. Only a handful of films from each decade will end up being timeless and considered a classic. This is, without question, one of those films.

The plot is thick and rich and too complicated to sum up entirely in the format that we've chosen to write in, but in brief it's about a man who is mistaken for a secret agent that doesn't exist. The idea came from a real life World War II story where the British invented a spy and got the Nazi's to look for him.  Hitchcock has always used major landmarks in his films.  Most of the time, these locations are where our heroes meet their most dramatic moments.

This is a beautiful use of irony in that the places that people look for some stability in their lives, via their country, god, or whatever else have you, is where Hitchcock's characters must fight their hardest to survive.  This film uses Mount Rushmore National Monument in South Dakota and the U.N. Building in New York to test and try it's heroes.  In the Gods of Filmmaking opinion:  best Hitchcock ever.

(Directed by Alfred Hitchcock)

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