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Watching North By Northwest for what must be that 10th time, I was struck as much by how totally absurd Ernest Lehman's screenplay is.

What happens when a dashing ad agency exec is mistaken for a U.S. secret agent, chased across the continent by enemy spies, tempted by the beautiful woman he meets on a train, chased down by a machinegun wielding, crop-dusting plane, and dangled from the faces of Mount Rushmore? Alfred Hitchcock at one of his finest moments is what happens, and it ...

Thankfully, Peter Gabriel realized the error of his ways: Would Lloyd Dobler be the same without In Your Eyes? Anniversaries offer time for reflection, and is there any medium more reflective than the silver screen? This week saw the release of two celebratory reissues: Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest turns 50; Cameron Crowe's Say Anything ...

Published: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 12:27 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 12:27 p.m. "That's funny." INFO BOX "North by Northwest - 50th Anniversary Blu-ray Edition" 4 stars Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll and Martin Landau Director: Alfred Hitchcock Writer: Ernest Lehman ...

Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 masterpiece has never looked better, and it's among this week's platinum picks.

Cary Grant is on the run again in Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 thriller "North By Northwest," remastered now in high-definition. Madison Avenue culture is a blip on the ol' radar screen again, thanks to AMC's cable-TV show "Mad Men." So it's interesting to track its picture of early '60s male corporate hegemony alongside a contemporary take on the breed ...

WHO CAN FORGET those images - Cary Grant on a deserted highway being chased by a crop dusting plane? Grant and Eva Marie Saint scampering over the president's noses on Mount Rushmore as they are pursued by a group of nefarious spies? Then there's the pulsating score by Bernard Herrmann, one of the great screen composer's most evocative works.

It's one of the most chilling chase scenes in film history: A suited Cary Grant runs for his life as a low-flying biplane buzzes, shoots and crop-dusts him before crashing into a fiery ball.

Video Patrol: 'North by Northwest' better than ever Submitted by SHNS on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 18:49 "That's funny." "What?" "That plane's dustin' crops where there ain't no crops." A few seconds later, Madison Avenue adman Roger Thornhill will be dodging the most evil crop duster in movie history.

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Our review of North By Northwest , published December 18th, 2000, is also available.

FAMOUS SCENE: Roger Thornhill runs from a crop duster thatA A's cutting it close in 1959A A's A A'North by Northwest.A A' A newly remastered digital print will be shown tonight at Mann Chinese Theatre Who can forget those images -- Cary Grant on a deserted highway being chased by a crop dusting plane? Grant and Eva Marie Saint scampering over the ...

"NORTH BY NORTHWEST'' Knowing a hawk from a handsaw Cary Grant stands along an utterly exposed stretch of prairie highway, only slowly realizing why a distant crop duster seems to be taking such a curious flight path.

I love the fact that there are television channels completely devoted to classic movies of all kinds, but I love any news that involves previously unreleased films being able for my grubby little hands even more.

Pul Ruark, Anna Mae Stevens and Ashley McClelland rehearse Monday for The Brook Hill School's annual dinner theater presentation of "Arsenic and Old Lace." The performance is an adaptation of Joseph Kesserling's stage play of the same name.

There's nothing like a well-crafted film scene where the central couple meets for the first time to set a movie's tone, whether it's a sophisticated thriller, a sexy film noir or a good-old-fashioned romantic comedy.

Video Event of the Week: Is it the Miramax DVD of Cheri , Stephen Frears ' oddly overlooked 2009 adaptation of two Colette stories, starring the still toothsome Michele Pfeiffer ? Could BBC/Warner's Fawlty Towers: The Complete Collection , featuring remastered versions of all twelve episodes of John Cleese 's classic britcom conceivably make the ...

In the classic American movie "His Girl Friday" starring Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant much of the action is in the press room of a prison in the hours before an execution.

News & Media / Entertainment Author: STEVEN D. GREYDANUS Source: ZATHURA, HIS GIRL FRIDAY, THE AWFUL TRUTH Video Picks & Passes CONTENT ADVISORY: Zathura contains much moderate sci-fi action menace and violence; some crude language; brief, oblique sexually related references; normalized depiction of divorce The Awful Truth and His Girl Friday ...

Review: Star Wars: The Clone Wars 2.4 "Senate Spy" October 19, 2:22 AM Star Wars Examiner Bryan Young The Clone Wars Lucasfilm, Ltd "Senate Spy", the fourth episode of the second season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, is very much a thrilling homage to what may have been one of Alfred Hitchcock's finest films, Notorious.