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North By Northwest (BIL/4K UHD) [Blu-ray]

Cary Grant (Actor), Eva Marie Saint (Actor) Rated: NR (Not Rated) Format: Blu-ray
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Cary Grant stars as an innocent man mistaken for a spy in one of director Alfred Hitchcock's greatest thrillers. While leaving New York's Plaza Hotel, advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Grant) has the misfortune of standing just as the name "George Kaplan" is paged--starting a lethal case of mistaken identity and a nonstop game of cat and mouse as he is pursued across North America by espionage agents trying to kill him--and by police who suspect him of murder

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  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Parcel Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 17.2 x 13.8 x 1.4 cm; 68.04 g
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Alfred Hitchcock
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ 4K, NTSC
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 16 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ Nov. 19 2024
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Warner Bros.
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Alfred Hitchcock
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0DGMHSD6Z
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Ernest Lehman
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Customers find the movie fantastic, top-notch, and one of Hitchcock's best films. They appreciate the visual quality, saying the scenes are classic and exciting on the big screen. Customers say it's highly entertaining, like the action, and loves real suspense. They also appreciate the sound quality and the story and special features.

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Customers find the movie fantastic and a great classic by Alfred Hitchcock. They appreciate the scenery and say it's the best of Film Noire. Customers also mention it's a must-watch movie with excellent special features.

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Customers appreciate the quality of the movie. They mention it's excellent, top-notch, and one of Hitchcock's best. They also mention the booklet is informative and first-rate.

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"...is polished and highly entertaining, as good (albeit not as high-tech and splashy) as the 1960s James Bond films...." Read more

"This movie is classic hitchcock, well cast with Grant and Saint and a good story with a suspensful ending. Must have" Read more

"...Cary Grant is perfect and Eva Marie Saint is luminous. Quality of movie is excellent except could be louder - we had the TV turned up to max and..." Read more

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Customers appreciate the visual quality of the movie. They mention it's a great visual pleasure, exciting as original on the big screen, and has beautiful picture and sound quality. They also say the special effects are pretty good.

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Customers find the movie highly entertaining. They also like the action and say it's a must-have for those who love real suspense.

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  • Movie Lover
    5.0 out of 5 stars North by Northwest - Limited Edition 4K Is Very Cool
    Reviewed in Canada on December 16, 2024
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  • Old Film Lover
    5.0 out of 5 stars Warner Home Video 50th Anniversary Edition DVD Set of North by Northwest is Top-Notch
    Reviewed in Canada on February 19, 2015
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    The 50th Anniversary edition of North by Northwest has just about everything anyone could want.

    This is a 2-DVD set. On the first DVD is the movie itself, presented in its original widescreen format. You can watch it three ways: as the movie, as the movie with commentary by screenwriter Ernest Lehman, or as the movie with no sound but the Bernard Herrmann score. The film runs 2 hours and 16 minutes, which is the original length according to the IMDb. The commentary by Lehman is informative, though he doesn't offer as many detailed insights about the art of screenwriting as one would like.

    On the second DVD contains a mass of special features. There are two theatrical trailers, a standard one plus one narrated humorously by Hitchcock himself, and there is one TV advertisement for the film. There is a stills gallery which runs for a few minutes. There are two features on North by Northwest, totalling over an hour between them; of these two, the "Making of" feature, which takes you through the production of the picture in chronological order, is the more substantial, the other one being more or less a collection of fan appreciation clips from directors and Hitchcock family members who admire the film. There is a nearly hour-long feature on Hitchcock's cinematic style, which is informative and which has some reference to North by Northwest as well as to many of Hitchcock's other films. Finally, there an hour-and-a-half PBS special on the career and roles of Cary Grant, with lots of biographical information about Grant and numerous appreciations of his work by various people. It's quite good, but would have been better without one uncalled-for four-letter word used in an interview by one of Grant's former wives. (Presumably PBS bleeped the word when the special was originally aired.)

    The print of the movie is very good. The colour is beautiful, the sound is excellent, and so on.

    The movie itself, a suspense thriller along the line of Saboteur (itself one of Hitchcock's greatest films) is polished and highly entertaining, as good (albeit not as high-tech and splashy) as the 1960s James Bond films. The plot, characterization and dialogue are all excellent. Grant is at his best, showing both his comic and serious sides with equal facility; Mason is perfect as the smooth, cultivated, but subtly menacing villain; Eva Marie Saint is excellent as the emotionally torn woman working for -- whose side? (You'll have to watch the movie to find out.) Not only are the three leads great: there are several wonderful supporting characters, including Leo G. Carroll, Martin Landau, and Jessie Royce Landis. There are also smaller supporting bits by people one knows well: Edward Platt ("the Chief" from Get Smart) as a lawyer, Robert Shayne ("Inspector Henderson" from Superman) as a drinking buddy in a hotel lounge, Ken Lynch as a cop, etc.

    The sets and photography (both indoor and location) are wonderful. The special effects are pretty good, as well, though to me the celebrated plane crash scene, though well-shot, is a lot less interesting than its reputation indicates, and the Mt. Rushmore scenes are of mixed quality, some looking very real and some very much giving away the fact that they were shot on a studio set (the rock is too shiny and smooth and toothbrush-scrubbed white, and the sense of being at a real height and in danger of falling is not as convincingly portrayed as in some other Hitchcock films). But overall, the film is a great visual pleasure -- as is so often the case with Hitchcock's films.

    I purchased this product for only about $18 from Â鶹Çø.ca. Many single DVD-Rs of lesser films cost more than that, and they have no special features. There is nothing to fault in this product. Five stars.
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  • Tab
    5.0 out of 5 stars A classic movie!
    Reviewed in Canada on December 27, 2024
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    Love this Cary Grant classic movie!
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  • Michael B. Neuman
    4.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT ALFRED
    Reviewed in Canada on September 30, 2011
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    This movie is classic hitchcock, well cast with Grant and Saint and a good story with a suspensful ending. Must have
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  • P Brown
    5.0 out of 5 stars Looks and Sounds Fantastic
    Reviewed in Canada on December 30, 2024
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    Had this years ago on VHS but never got around to getting the DVD. Glad I waited. The color palette and clarity improvement with HDR is excellent, as is the soundtrack/effects on my Atmos 5.2.2 system. The overhead sound image during the crop dusting sequence is not quite perfect, but close enough given the age of the film.

    A must-buy for any Hitchcock fan or 4K film enthusiast.
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  • L'¨¦ternel sourire
    5.0 out of 5 stars Coffret avantageux
    Reviewed in Canada on February 8, 2025
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    Je suis tr¨¨s heureux d'avoir r¨¦ussi ¨¤ obtenir un exemplaire de ce film classique (ASIN B000BM2P78) : La Mort aux trousses - ?dition Collector 2 DVD .
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  • JT Dunford
    5.0 out of 5 stars FANTASTIC
    Reviewed in Canada on September 19, 2021
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    One of the best Hitchcock's ever. Cary Grant is perfect and Eva Marie Saint is luminous. Quality of movie is excellent except could be louder - we had the TV turned up to max and James Mason was still hard to hear at times. Luckily had CC. Made for a wonderful evening.
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  • Robert Hennessy
    3.0 out of 5 stars Great Movie
    Reviewed in Canada on January 3, 2025
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    ( DID NOT RECEIVE THE BLUE RAY AS SHOWN! )
    WOULD LIKE THE COPY!
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    ROBERT HENNESSY
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  • Mafatime
    5.0 out of 5 stars Eva Marie et Gary Grant un couple de r¨ºve dans une aventure rocambolesque.
    Reviewed in France on January 28, 2025
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    Du grand Hitchcock ! Du cinema qui a marqu¨¦ son ¨¦poque. Des acteurs inspir¨¦s. De super belles images. Bref si ce n¡¯est d¨¦j¨¤ fait ¨¤ voir absolument !
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  • Happy Reader
    5.0 out of 5 stars DVD EXTRAS on the 50th Anniversary Edition are as good as the Movie!
    Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2012
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    Roger O. Thornhill is a busy New York City advertising executive who loves his mother and loves his women. He's having an after-work drink with three buddies when he's abducted at gunpoint. They take him to a mansion in the country, and their boss, Lester Townsend, scrutinizes his captive: "Not what I expected. A little taller. A little more polished than the others."

    Thornhill replies, "Not that I mind a slight case of abduction now and then, but I have tickets to the theater this evening. To a show I was looking forward to!" And that sets the pace for the whole movie. Politely sinister. Classy humor. Thornhill is played with panache and great comic touch by Cary Grant. Townsend is played with sly menace by James Mason. The lovely Eva Marie Saint doesn't even appear in the 1st half of the movie, then her Eve Kendall takes over the screen and Thornhill's heart - but it costs her.

    "North by Northwest" has a couple of the most recognized and parodied scenes in films. The cropduster chasing Cary Grant in the middle of nowhere never loses its fear factor. And who can forget Roger Thornhill and Eve Kendall climbing down Mt. Rushmore?

    I'm writing this review to let you know that the extras on the 50th Anniversary Edition, 2 DVD's, are simply excellent
    North by Northwest (Two-Disc 50th Anniversary Edition):

    1. "Cary Grant: A Class Apart". First airing in 2004, this is an 87 minute episode of PBS's "American Masters" TV series. It is narrated by Helen Mirren and Jeremy Northam, with many movie clips and contributing commenters. Cary Grant was in 72 films, including 4 directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He ended his film career voluntarily, quitting while he was at the top. He passed away in 1986 of a stroke. Look at this list of interviewees for this special! I found this extra in-depth and interesting.
    - Barbara Grant, his wife from 1981-1986
    - Jeanine Basinger, film historian
    - Roderick Mann, friend
    - Nancy Nelson, author of "Evenings with Cary Grant"
    - Betsy Drake, actor, his wife from 1949-1962 and an outspoken pistol!
    - Elvis Mitchell, film critic for the "New York Times"
    - Peter Bogdanovich, director (he knew Hitchcock and Grant personally, and he participates on the movie commentary track for the DVD Collector's Edition of "To Catch a Thief")
    - Martin Landau, actor, who plays James Mason's secretary, Leonard, in "North by Northwest"
    - James Harvey, film historian
    - Ralph Bellamy, actor, from a 1988 interview (he's not in this film)
    - Todd McCarthy, author "Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood"
    - David Denby, film critic for "The New Yorker"
    - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., actor, from a 1988 interview
    - Howard Hawks, director, from 1967 interview. He directed Grant in "His Girl Friday" (1940) and "Bringing Up Baby" (1938)
    - Dina Merrill, actor
    - Jill St. John, actor
    - Sidney Sheldon, writer
    - Ralph Laren, designer, friend
    - Eva Marie Saint, actor
    - Mel Shavelson, director, he directed Grant in "Houseboat" (1958)
    - Deborah Kerr, actor, from 1988 interview
    - Ernest Lehman, screenwriter for "North by Northwest"
    - Alfred Hitchcock, director, from 1966 interview
    - Stanley Donen, directed Grant in "Charade" (1963, with Audrey Hepburn)
    - George Kennedy, actor, from 2003 interview
    - Samantha Eggar, actor
    - and, last but not least, Cary Grant, in that they read excerpts from a series of autobiographical essays that were published in 1963. Grant gave few interviews, but he did open up in these essays.

    2. "The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style". This is a 57 minute documentary from 2009. This was also fascinating to watch. It starts with Alfred himself saying, "It may be that I was born with the sense of drama"!
    A little bit of everything is covered in this extra, from costumes to music, to Hitchcock's preference for cool blonde leading ladies. Most of the comments, however, and not unexpectedly, have to do with his direction. How he made the angles, light, composition, point of view and camera tell the story and paint the mood. An impressive list of directors talk about Hitchcock's genius:
    - Francis Lawrence, director of "I Am Legend" and "Constantine"
    - William Friedkin, director of "The Exorcist" and "The French Connection"
    - Guillermo del Toro, director of "Pan's Labyrinth" and "Hellboy"
    - John Carpenter, director of "Halloween" and "Escape From New York"
    - Richard Loncraine, director of "Firewall"
    - Martin Scorsese, director of "Goodfellas"
    - Curtis Hanson, director of "L.A. Confidential" and "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle"
    - Joe Carnahan, director of "Smokin' Aces"

    3. "The Making of North by Northwest", hosted by Eva Marie Saint. Interesting stories are told by several people, including Pat Hitchcock, the director's daughter, and Ernest Lehman, writer for "North by Northwest". Lehman talks about the genesis of the plot, when Hitchcock tells him: "I've always wanted to do a chase across the faces of Mount Rushmore."

    4. "North by Northwest: One for the Ages", a short. This looks like it is made up of unused material from extra #2, "The Master's Touch". Also interesting.

    5. Stills Gallery
    6. Trailers and TV Spots

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    Happy Reader
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    DVD EXTRAS on the 50th Anniversary Edition are as good as the Movie!

    Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2012
    Roger O. Thornhill is a busy New York City advertising executive who loves his mother and loves his women. He's having an after-work drink with three buddies when he's abducted at gunpoint. They take him to a mansion in the country, and their boss, Lester Townsend, scrutinizes his captive: "Not what I expected. A little taller. A little more polished than the others."

    Thornhill replies, "Not that I mind a slight case of abduction now and then, but I have tickets to the theater this evening. To a show I was looking forward to!" And that sets the pace for the whole movie. Politely sinister. Classy humor. Thornhill is played with panache and great comic touch by Cary Grant. Townsend is played with sly menace by James Mason. The lovely Eva Marie Saint doesn't even appear in the 1st half of the movie, then her Eve Kendall takes over the screen and Thornhill's heart - but it costs her.

    "North by Northwest" has a couple of the most recognized and parodied scenes in films. The cropduster chasing Cary Grant in the middle of nowhere never loses its fear factor. And who can forget Roger Thornhill and Eve Kendall climbing down Mt. Rushmore?

    I'm writing this review to let you know that the extras on the 50th Anniversary Edition, 2 DVD's, are simply excellent
    North by Northwest (Two-Disc 50th Anniversary Edition):

    1. "Cary Grant: A Class Apart". First airing in 2004, this is an 87 minute episode of PBS's "American Masters" TV series. It is narrated by Helen Mirren and Jeremy Northam, with many movie clips and contributing commenters. Cary Grant was in 72 films, including 4 directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He ended his film career voluntarily, quitting while he was at the top. He passed away in 1986 of a stroke. Look at this list of interviewees for this special! I found this extra in-depth and interesting.
    - Barbara Grant, his wife from 1981-1986
    - Jeanine Basinger, film historian
    - Roderick Mann, friend
    - Nancy Nelson, author of "Evenings with Cary Grant"
    - Betsy Drake, actor, his wife from 1949-1962 and an outspoken pistol!
    - Elvis Mitchell, film critic for the "New York Times"
    - Peter Bogdanovich, director (he knew Hitchcock and Grant personally, and he participates on the movie commentary track for the DVD Collector's Edition of "To Catch a Thief")
    - Martin Landau, actor, who plays James Mason's secretary, Leonard, in "North by Northwest"
    - James Harvey, film historian
    - Ralph Bellamy, actor, from a 1988 interview (he's not in this film)
    - Todd McCarthy, author "Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood"
    - David Denby, film critic for "The New Yorker"
    - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., actor, from a 1988 interview
    - Howard Hawks, director, from 1967 interview. He directed Grant in "His Girl Friday" (1940) and "Bringing Up Baby" (1938)
    - Dina Merrill, actor
    - Jill St. John, actor
    - Sidney Sheldon, writer
    - Ralph Laren, designer, friend
    - Eva Marie Saint, actor
    - Mel Shavelson, director, he directed Grant in "Houseboat" (1958)
    - Deborah Kerr, actor, from 1988 interview
    - Ernest Lehman, screenwriter for "North by Northwest"
    - Alfred Hitchcock, director, from 1966 interview
    - Stanley Donen, directed Grant in "Charade" (1963, with Audrey Hepburn)
    - George Kennedy, actor, from 2003 interview
    - Samantha Eggar, actor
    - and, last but not least, Cary Grant, in that they read excerpts from a series of autobiographical essays that were published in 1963. Grant gave few interviews, but he did open up in these essays.

    2. "The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style". This is a 57 minute documentary from 2009. This was also fascinating to watch. It starts with Alfred himself saying, "It may be that I was born with the sense of drama"!
    A little bit of everything is covered in this extra, from costumes to music, to Hitchcock's preference for cool blonde leading ladies. Most of the comments, however, and not unexpectedly, have to do with his direction. How he made the angles, light, composition, point of view and camera tell the story and paint the mood. An impressive list of directors talk about Hitchcock's genius:
    - Francis Lawrence, director of "I Am Legend" and "Constantine"
    - William Friedkin, director of "The Exorcist" and "The French Connection"
    - Guillermo del Toro, director of "Pan's Labyrinth" and "Hellboy"
    - John Carpenter, director of "Halloween" and "Escape From New York"
    - Richard Loncraine, director of "Firewall"
    - Martin Scorsese, director of "Goodfellas"
    - Curtis Hanson, director of "L.A. Confidential" and "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle"
    - Joe Carnahan, director of "Smokin' Aces"

    3. "The Making of North by Northwest", hosted by Eva Marie Saint. Interesting stories are told by several people, including Pat Hitchcock, the director's daughter, and Ernest Lehman, writer for "North by Northwest". Lehman talks about the genesis of the plot, when Hitchcock tells him: "I've always wanted to do a chase across the faces of Mount Rushmore."

    4. "North by Northwest: One for the Ages", a short. This looks like it is made up of unused material from extra #2, "The Master's Touch". Also interesting.

    5. Stills Gallery
    6. Trailers and TV Spots

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    5.0 out of 5 stars Dvd
    Reviewed in Italy on July 4, 2025
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  • Independent Lady
    5.0 out of 5 stars It is a Cary Grant film so of course it is great!
    Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2013
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    I have always liked this film. Hitchcock's script is deliciously written with Grant's character Roger O. Thornhill being mistaken for an undercover agent named George Kaplan. Given Thornhill's position as an executive one would think that the sinister James Mason and his equally sinister aide Martin Landau would check into Thornhill's claim that he is not George Kaplan, but I guess they figured "bird in hand"... Jessie Royce Landis role as Grant's mother is lovely and amazing given that she and Grant were about the same age at the time this film was made. I am not sure which scene I find most breathtaking and heart stopping - when Grant is chased by a crop duster plane on open fields or when he is trying to make his way across and upon Mount Rushmore with Eva Marie Saint. I have been to Mount Rushmore and know that I would not want to make an attempt to climb it and especially at night. I confess that I am surprised that the National Parks Service would allow anyone to climb Mount Rushmore, but this scene adds hugely to the suspense. The musical score adds to the atmosphere of the cat and mouse game being played. I own a copy of this film on DVD, but it wasn't until the 1990's that I finally could place part of the score. I kept thinking that part of the musical score had been reused for another film. Then when I purchased a copy of "V" {the first miniseries} I made the connection. The part of the score used in the crop dusting scene was reused in part of this science fiction miniseries and was just as suspenseful as in "North By Northwest". This film is one of Hitchcock's greatest achievements in movie making. I have to admit that his "Rear Window" is my most favorite of Hitchcock's films, but "North By Northwest is next in line. Grant manages to inject his own zany humor when he talks about his various ex-wives who depend upon his earnings and when he is trying to convince the police that he was not drunk, but taken to a big house only to discover that the staff at the big house has changed and no one remembers seeing Grant. I have always wondered if the police were in on this deal or if the 'respectable' people at the house were so convincing that it was thought that Grant had been drunk instead of drugged. The scenes between Grant and Eva Marie Saint on the train are delightful. This is a film that calls for the phone being turned off, the door bell ignored and home made popcorn.
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