North by Northwest

Director: Alfred Hitchcock 
Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau, Leo G. Carroll
Runtime: 136'
Year of Production: 1959
Language: English
Subtitles: Greek

A year after the psychoanalytic whirlpool of the masterful "Vertigo", Alfred Hitchcock returns to his favorite genre of espionage adventure with the contribution of the legendary screenplay writer Ernest Lehman ("West Side Story", "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?") and submits an ageless entertaining and culty playful film which summarizes not only the usual obsessions, but also the director's naughty mood for action, humor and spectacle.

The twist-filled plot about a man being pursued across the whole country by a group of foreign spies who mistake him for a government agent, an ingenious script which makes sure to constantly undermine the audience's expectations, the History (the giant busts of American Presidents in the Mount Rushmore) which ironically follows the film's story, the indulging starring pair of Cary Grant and Eve Marie Saint, enviable supporting actors such as James Mason or Martin Landau and numerous anthology scenes are exquisite details of one of the most classic works the maitre of suspense ever signed. Panos Gkenas