Movie Review: North by Nothwest

Movie Review: North by Northwest

     North by Northwest is a movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The theatrical version of the film was released July 28^th, 1959 by MGM studios and Warner Home Video released the DVD version of the film in the year 2001. Cary Grant stars as the protagonist, Roger Thornhill and Eva Marie Saint stares as Eve Kendall.

     The protagonist, Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a man named, George Kaplan. He is kidnapped and taken to the house of what he assumes is Lester Townsend’s. When Thornhill enters the house, it’s where the initial incident in the plot begins. He is interrogated by a man named Phillip Vandamm and later is arrested for drunk driving after being forced to drink Bourbon. When we are first introduced to Roger Thornhill he is an innocent man, but as the story builds he portrayed as a criminal because of the bizarre events leading up to the conclusion of the story. One of these events is when he meets Lester Townsend in person; suddenly Townsend is hit in the back with a knife leaving him dead. Thornhill pulls the knife out of his back and is photographed for the paper as a criminal. Later in the story, he meets Eve Kendall on a train to Chicago. She is a very unpredictable character.

     Both Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint played their roles well. They were very believable. The costumes in the movie blended well with the time period and the characters. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and would definitely see it again. It was a very suspenseful movie and had good plot structure.