

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Direction
Hitchcock's precision — every frame a diagram of anxiety.
Cinematography
VistaVision landscapes that make terror look gorgeous.
Acting
Grant's gray suit does more acting than most careers.

Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The crop duster scene had no music — Hitchcock wanted only the engine's drone to build dread.
Grant's gray suit became cinema's most influential costume; Tom Ford literally rebuilt it for 'North by Northwest' (2015).
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