Description
North by Northwest is a suspenseful film about a man who is mistaken for a secret agent and is pursued by enemies. Cary Grant is the protagonist and Eve Marie Saint is his friend.
A masterful mix of comedy and suspense from Alfred Hitchcock.
Advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is lunching in a
restaurant with his mother when he mistakenly answers a page for
one George Kaplan. He soon finds himself on the run across the
country, being pursued by enemies of the government who are
convinced that he is a secret agent. He finds a friend in Eve
Kendall (Eve Marie Saint), who helps conceal him during a perilous
train journey, but soon discovers that she is not all she seems.