Review of film: “NORTH BY NORTHWEST” + Q&A with EVA MARIE SAINT

2010, 03-30: 

Review of film:  “NORTH BY NORTHWEST”  +  Q&A with EVA MARIE SAINT

           

Director:

Alfred Hitchcock

Writer:

Ernest Lehman

Starring:

Cary Grant     ...         Roger O. Thornhill

Eva Marie Saint        ...         Eve Kendall

James Mason           ...         Phillip Vandamm

Jessie Royce Landis           ...         Clara Thornhill

Leo G. Carroll           ...         The Professor

Josephine Hutchinson       ...         Mrs. Townsend

Philip Ober    ...         Lester Townsend

Martin Landau          ...         Leonard
Adam Williams         ...         Valerian

Quotes:

“I’m NOT Kaplan--  whoever he is!”

“The least I can do is offer you the opportunity of SURVIVING the evening…”

“I surely don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Somebody--  call the Police!”

“OK--  so he’s addressing the General Assembly.”

“We CREATED ‘George Kaplan’.”

“Goodbye Mr. Thornhill, wherever you are.”

“”You’re Roger Thornill, and you’re wanted for murder.”

“Yes--  I know exactly what you mean.”

“I’m beginning to think I’m UNDERPAID.”

“Now, what could a man do with his trousers off for twenty minutes?…”

“How does a girl like you get to BE a girl like you?!”

“You have no feelings to hurt.”

“And several…  are dependent on me.”

“Call it my ‘women’s intuition’, if you will…”

MY Rating:

8.5 of 10 stars (based on a special screening of the 131-minute film).

On March 30, 2010, TCM (TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES) held a special showing of an older movie in Chicago (as they did with various other films in other cities)...

...  The film was ALFRED HITCHCOCK’s classis “NORTH BY NORTHWEST”, with CARY GRANT playing a New York City advertising exec named “Roger O. Thornhill”  who a group of foreign spies erroneously take for being a Government AGENT...

...  They chase him around the country (including in CHICAGO and at South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore), trying to capture him and extract what they “want” from him...   

...  The film is a marvelously rare combination of being both very EXCITING and also unusually stylish at the same time......  Hosted by ROBERT OSBORNE of TCM - TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES, the screening was followed by a special Q&A with one of its stars, EVA MARIE SAINT (who plays “Eve Kendall”, a lady helping Cary in the film), answering questions about the movie and her career... 

...  I shot a number of PHOTOS of her (as seen below)... 

[ NOTE:  TCM - TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES is an official AFFILIATE of this web-site!  You can see ADS mentioning some of their offerings near the bottom of the RIGHT-HAND column... ]

... Coincidentally, the CHICAGO INT’L FILM FESTIVAL (CIFF) held a special “Q&A” screening of the SAME film with another of its stars, MARTIN LANDAU (who played assistant “Leonard” to chief spy James Mason) in October of 2009, & I also shot photos of HIM there (and spoke to him a bit)...

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