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North by Northwest

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North by Northwest	label	North by Northwest
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North by Northwest	comment	A classic 1959 thriller by Alfred Hitchcock, in which an innocent man is mistaken for a spy and pursued halfway across the USA by enemy spies searching for a MacGuffin. You may know it as "the one with the climax on Mount Rushmore." Or, better still, as "the one where Cary Grant gets chased by a crop duster," a scene which has often been homaged.Shortly after the film begins, Manhattan advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill (Grant) finds himself abducted by enemy agents working for the master foreign spy Phillip Vandamm (James Mason), who's currently masquerading as the UN diplomat Lester Townsend. Through a case of Mistaken Identity, Vandamm believes Roger to be George Kaplan, an American spy who's been tailing him. When Roger insists he isn't the spy, Vandamm orders him killed. His henchmen, led by the sinister Leonard (Martin Landau), decide to stage a fatal accident by forcing Roger to consume a full bottle of bourbon and then placing him at the wheel of a stolen car and sending him down a trecherously winding cliffside road.One car chase later, Roger escapes but is arrested for drunk driving. The following day, he takes the skeptical police—and his equally-skeptical mother (Jessie Royce Landis)—to the Townsend mansion where he was abducted, only to find Vandamm gone and the housekeeper, who's another Vandamm associate, claiming that Roger stole the car after getting drunk at a party there.To clear his name, Roger attempts to find George Kaplan. Accompanied by his mother, he searches Kaplan's vacant room at the Plaza Hotel, where he discovers little other than that Kaplan is a shorter man than he and that seemingly none of the hotel staff have ever met the elusive spy in person. After narrowly escaping another encounter with Vandamm's henchmen, Roger goes to the United Nations, where the real Townsend is giving a speech. Roger, surprised to discover it wasn't actually Townsend who abducted him, is even more surprised when Townsend's corpse falls into his arms, after one of Vandamm's mooks knifes the uncomprehending diplomat in the back. Roger's photo is taken on the spot, and now not only fearing for his life but finding himself Wrongly Accused of murder, he decides to flee New York.After a train journey to Chicago—during which Roger meets Femme Fatale Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint)—and another attempt on his life in the famous crop-duster attack, Roger eventually follows Eve to an art auction, where Vandamm is bidding on a statue. To escape the spy and his mooks, Roger disrupts the auction, deliberately getting himself arrested by the police.The police are ordered to take Roger to the Professor (Leo G. Carroll), an American spymaster, who explains the plot. George Kaplan never existed; he was only a red herring, meant to divert the enemy from the real agent. While Roger's actions initially provided a useful inadvertent distraction, he has ended up raising Vandamm's suspicions towards the real spy, so the Professor proposes a complex charade to resolve the situation.When this goes wrong, Roger and Eve end up being chased across Mount Rushmore by Leonard and Vandamm's other henchmen.One of Hitchcock's most popular films, North by Northwest was also a major stylistic influence on The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. (For one thing, that series had Leo G. Carroll playing a very similar character type in Alexander Waverly, and drew most of its "innocents getting caught up in international intrigue" schtick from this film.) And it has been seen by many as providing part of the template for the James Bond films.At two hours and 16 minutes, it's Hitchcock's longest film (other than the special extended DVD cut of Topaz).In 2015, it was adapted into a stage play in Australia; it played twice in Melbourne (2015â€“16), had a 2017 season in the UK (Bath) that traveled to Toronto later that year, and played once more in Australia (Adelaide) in 2018â€“19.
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North by Northwest / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
North by Northwest / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Alfred Hitchcock is seen getting a bus door slammed in his face, right after his name appears on the screen in the opening credits. Contrary to rumor, he didn't make a second cameo Disguised in Drag on the train. That was veteran character actress Jesslyn Fax (who does look a lot like a female Hitchcock). This is even included in the stage production: on his way to the fateful dinner meeting, Roger and his secretary steal a cab, claiming the woman is ill, from an ensemble member dressed and made up to imitate Hitchcock. (see Failing a Taxi)
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North by Northwest / int_1392fbe7	type	Drunk Driver
North by Northwest / int_1392fbe7	comment	Drunk Driver: The bad guys force-feed Roger a quart of whiskey and put him behind the wheel of a car, sending him on his way. He somehow manages to avoid killing himself or anyone else, but gets thrown in jail. His mother and lawyer bail him out, taking these events to be his usual carousing hijinks over his frustrated explanation.
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North by Northwest / int_14ec1fb	type	Symbolic Glass House
North by Northwest / int_14ec1fb	comment	Symbolic Glass House: Roger climbs up a big house with vast windows which is an archetype of modernist architecture and is the hiding place for spies in search of Eve, who is working with the villains, and he manages to save her from there after he finds out that they're planning to have her killed.
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North by Northwest / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
North by Northwest / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: After Roger rescues Eve and they marry, he helps her into the sleeping compartment of another train. We then see the train entering a tunnel. Why? No reason.
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North by Northwest / int_16fdd774	type	Losing a Shoe in the Struggle
North by Northwest / int_16fdd774	comment	Losing a Shoe in the Struggle: Eve ditches her shoes in the Mount Rushmore chase and goes barefoot, in order to scale the chiselled rock better.
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North by Northwest / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
North by Northwest / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The names of the Vandamm henchmen who first abduct Roger (Valerian and Licht) are never stated on-screen but are given in the script, as is Roger's mother's first name (Clara).
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North by Northwest / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
North by Northwest / int_18d15922	comment	Every location is north by northwest. For example, said Manhattan taxi ride, New York to Chicago and so on.
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North by Northwest / int_1b395eea	type	Standard Hollywood Strafing Procedure
North by Northwest / int_1b395eea	comment	Standard Hollywood Strafing Procedure: The crop duster attacking Thornhill, though in this case, it's not an attack plane but a regular plane with a passenger wielding a gun
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North by Northwest / int_1b68e2e2	type	The Chase
North by Northwest / int_1b68e2e2	comment	The Chase: The film turns into this when Thornhill starts running for his life.
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North by Northwest / int_1d8733d3	type	Overly Narrow Superlative
North by Northwest / int_1d8733d3	comment	Overly Narrow Superlative: "You're the smartest woman I've ever spent the night with on a train."
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North by Northwest / int_1ed91e2a	type	Revealing Hug
North by Northwest / int_1ed91e2a	comment	Revealing Hug: Roger is on the lam, meets Eve on a train, they get on very well... as he holds her we see her cool, calculating face, having slipped a note to his pursuers in the next compartment. This moment provides the trope image.
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North by Northwest / int_1f067b97	type	Invented Individual
North by Northwest / int_1f067b97	comment	Invented Individual: George Kaplan is a phony agent who attracts attention away from real operatives.
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North by Northwest / int_1fb4d915	type	The Stool Pigeon
North by Northwest / int_1fb4d915	comment	The Stool Pigeon: Leonard reveals to Vandamm that the gun Eve shot Thornhill with was loaded with blanks, meaning Thornhill is not dead and Eve is a double agent. Vandamm is angry enough by this news to punch Leonard in the face.
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North by Northwest / int_1fe36347	type	Take My Hand!
North by Northwest / int_1fe36347	comment	Take My Hand!: The end of the film where Thornhill and Eve are hanging off of Mount Rushmore.
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North by Northwest / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
North by Northwest / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: A literal one. The gun Eve uses on Thornhill in the diner scene is first revealed as loaded with blanks after Thornhill is revealed to still be alive. It's later revealed by Leonard to Vandamm to be loaded with blanks. Later on the housemaid uses it on Thornhill, and the blasts from inside the house give Eve the chance to grab the MacGuffin statue and escape with Thornhill. Could also count as a Chekhov's Boomerang. Also, the ROT matchbook. Thornhill shows it to Eve first of all on the train to Chicago, then he later uses it near the end of the film to scribble a message inside to warn Eve of the attempt about to be made on her life.
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North by Northwest / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
North by Northwest / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Intentionally or otherwise, James Mason playing the villain here recalls him being described in the earlier Hitchcock film Rope as an actor who could be "attractively sinister."
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North by Northwest / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
North by Northwest / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: During the scene where Eve pretends to shoot Thornhill, you can clearly see a kid in the background (he's wearing a blue shirt) plug his ears in anticipation. Eva Marie Saint notes in the making of special that there were other good takes, and she has no idea why that one was used. Given Hitchcock's subversive sense of humor and love of Easter Eggs, he may well have chosen to use that take because of the boy.
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North by Northwest / int_27690f66	type	Literary Allusion Title
North by Northwest / int_27690f66	comment	Literary Allusion Title: From Hamlet:
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North by Northwest / int_27d19c47	type	Landmarking the Hidden Base
North by Northwest / int_27d19c47	comment	Landmarking the Hidden Base: The villains have a house on Mount Rushmore's peak.
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North by Northwest / int_29f510be	type	Auction
North by Northwest / int_29f510be	comment	Auction: In Chicago, Roger makes a public nuisance of himself at an art auction (claiming that the paintings are fake, bidding $12 when the highest preceding bid was $1000, etc.) so that the police will arrest him, thus keeping Vandamm from getting his hands on him. It is subsequently revealed that Vandamm used the auction house as a cover to smuggle microfilm out of the country.
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North by Northwest / int_2b7d29e1	type	Artifact Title
North by Northwest / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: Early drafts of the script called for the final showdown to take place in Alaska, but no one could come up with a better replacement title after the climactic scene was changed to Mount Rushmore. Actually, "North by Northwest" doesn't even exist on the compass. The only valid directions similar are North by West, Northwest by North, and North-Northwest. Although, at one point, Roger does get on a Northwest Airlines plane, and apparently goes north.
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North by Northwest / int_2ea2942b	type	Conspicuously Light Patch
North by Northwest / int_2ea2942b	comment	Conspicuously Light Patch: The climax takes place on the front of Mt. Rushmore. If you look very carefully in the moments in which you can see the full monument, you can see the blue-tinted line.
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North by Northwest / int_2f187e89	type	It Works Better with Bullets
North by Northwest / int_2f187e89	comment	It Works Better with Bullets: Happens; Vandamm's housekeeper holds Roger at bay with a gun she's picked up. Unfortunately for her, it's the same gun Eve used to fake shooting him earlier; it's only loaded with blanks, and he knows it.
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North by Northwest / int_2f1fa94c	type	Mysterious Middle Initial
North by Northwest / int_2f1fa94c	comment	Mysterious Middle Initial: Roger O. Thornhill. Turns out the O doesn't stand for anything.
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North by Northwest / int_2f50c5bf	type	Theme Music Power-Up
North by Northwest / int_2f50c5bf	comment	Theme Music Power-Up: Inverted. Both times the soundtrack cuts loose with the main theme are the times Roger is exceptionally screwed — drunk out of his mind careening out of control in a stolen car, and being chased by gunmen across Mount Rushmore.
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North by Northwest / int_30d43197	type	Remonstrating with a Gun
North by Northwest / int_30d43197	comment	Remonstrating With a Knife: Lester Townsend is surreptitiously stabbed in the back by Valerian as he talks with Thornhill at the UN. As he falls forward, Thornhill catches him, and seeing the knife pulls it out of Townsend's back. Only then does the large crowd around them notice what's happened, and the trope is duly invoked.
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North by Northwest / int_3255968b	type	Implied Death Threat
North by Northwest / int_3255968b	comment	Implied Death Threat: This exchange:
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North by Northwest / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
North by Northwest / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: Phillip Vandamm to Roger O Thornhill.
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North by Northwest / int_3403abfc	type	Mugged for Disguise
North by Northwest / int_3403abfc	comment	Mugged for Disguise: Thornhill is able to slip out of the train station in Chicago, despite being the object of a huge manhunt, by dressing in a Red Cap's uniform. Later, the REAL Red Cap is seen in his longjohns, being questioned by the police about the man who stole his uniform (but then it turns out that he wasn't really "Mugged For Disguise" so much as "Bribed For Disguise," because we see him counting a wad of cash, presumably paid to him by Thornhill).
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North by Northwest / int_340e75cb	type	Writing Indentation Clue
North by Northwest / int_340e75cb	comment	Writing Indentation Clue: Thornhill is able to figure out where Eve is going by finding the impression of an address she wrote.
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North by Northwest / int_3678a36a	type	Curves in All the Right Places
North by Northwest / int_3678a36a	comment	Curves in All the Right Places:
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North by Northwest / int_369a1bf6	type	Death Faked for You
North by Northwest / int_369a1bf6	comment	Also later on when Vandamm punches Leonard after the latter proves to the former that Eve didn't really shoot Thornhill.
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North by Northwest / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
North by Northwest / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: Courtesy of the man waiting for the bus, just before he leaves Thornhill to face a certain iconic danger...
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North by Northwest / int_38869708	type	The Precarious Ledge
North by Northwest / int_38869708	comment	The Precarious Ledge: Thornhill escapes the Professor's custody in the Rapid City hospital by navigating one of these. Then later, he and Eve are forced into scaling the top of Mount Rushmore to escape Vandamm and co.
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North by Northwest / int_3c3b5c27	type	Vehicular Assault
North by Northwest / int_3c3b5c27	comment	Vehicular Assault: Roger gets strafed by a crop-duster. The attack ends when Thornhill gets the plane to crash into a gasoline tanker.
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North by Northwest / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
North by Northwest / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: The enemy spies' first attempt to kill Thornhill plays this straight, when they force him to drink a whole bottle of bourbon, stick him in a car, and drive it toward a cliff so it will appear he killed himself drunk-driving. A stray comment by Leonard at their first meeting with Roger suggests they disposed of a previous government agent this way.
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North by Northwest / int_3f319f89	type	WronglyAccused
North by Northwest / int_3f319f89	comment	Wrongly Accused: Thornhill, like many of Hitchcock's protagonists, although he is probably the most famous example.
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North by Northwest / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
North by Northwest / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Thornhill's explanation to Eve for why the cops are combing the 20th Century Limited for him? Seven unpaid parking tickets.
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North by Northwest / int_424b665e	type	Heroes Gone Fishing
North by Northwest / int_424b665e	comment	Heroes Gone Fishing: Before being kidnapped by Valerian and Licht at the Plaza, Thornhill had plans to attend a performance at the Winter Garden Theatre. He is a little annoyed he doesn't make it there.
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North by Northwest / int_437820dc	type	Villainous Crush
North by Northwest / int_437820dc	comment	Villainous Crush: Leonard apparently for Vandamm.
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North by Northwest / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
North by Northwest / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: Happens when Leonard reveals to Vandamm that the gun that Eve used to shoot Roger with contained only blanks. He even shoots at Vandamm to prove it. Upon realizing what's happened, Vandamm reacts with a few seconds of silence before he gets enraged and punches Leonard in the face.
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North by Northwest / int_447d9e50	type	Xanatos Speed Chess
North by Northwest / int_447d9e50	comment	However, it could be something else going on here. They were clearly following Thornhill, because He Knows Too Much and they'd already failed to kill him, so were waiting for another opportunity. Thornhill confronts the real Townsend and might have told him that somebody was impersonating him and occupying his house. Killing Thornhill at this point would just make Townsend even more suspicious. Thornhill already knows he's being chased, so the best solution at that moment is to get rid of Townsend.
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North by Northwest / int_44db43ce	type	Staged Shooting
North by Northwest / int_44db43ce	comment	Staged Shooting: Eve shoots Roger in the Mt. Rushmore restaurant with blank cartridges.
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North by Northwest / int_4583a262	type	Shirtless Scene
North by Northwest / int_4583a262	comment	Shirtless Scene: At one point we see Roger in a hospital room wearing only a white towel.
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North by Northwest / int_461038e6	type	Mistaken for Spies
North by Northwest / int_461038e6	comment	Mistaken for Spies: The entire basis of the film.
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North by Northwest / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
North by Northwest / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Thornhill is very much this, thanks to Vandamm (who wants him dead) and the police (who want him arrested).
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North by Northwest / int_4814d132	type	Big Fancy House
North by Northwest / int_4814d132	comment	Big Fancy House: Townsend's Long Island estate. Vandamm's Frank Lloyd Wright-esque house on Mount Rushmore counts, too.
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North by Northwest / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
North by Northwest / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: To try and hide his identity in Grand Central Terminal, Thornhill dons a pair of sunglasses. The man at the counter guesses who he is and quickly calls security, but Thornhill manages to escape.
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North by Northwest / int_4a6dda60	type	If We Survive This
North by Northwest / int_4a6dda60	comment	If We Survive This: Roger promises Eve that if they survive the final confrontation on Mount Rushmore, they'd go back to New York on the train.
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North by Northwest / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
North by Northwest / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "How could he get mistaken for George Kaplan when George Kaplan doesn't even exist?"
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North by Northwest / int_4f76852c	type	Badass on Paper
North by Northwest / int_4f76852c	comment	Badass on Paper: Thornhill is just an ordinary Madison Avenue executive, yet over the course of the film, he manages to survive three attempts made on his life, causes the death of one of the perpetrators and manages to save Eve from certain death.
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North by Northwest / int_53407671	type	Action Survivor
North by Northwest / int_53407671	comment	The film make it clear that a government spy agency, even the "good" guys, really do value the mission and intelligence gathering and they will be willing to let innocent people die rather than compromise the cover of their mission. Both the US government and Eve Kendall herself were willing to leave Roger to die by Van Damm's forces to better preserve Eve's cover. The only reason they resort to help Roger at the end, is because he's attracted too much heat and attention, and is phenomenally lucky as an Action Survivor.
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North by Northwest / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
North by Northwest / int_537dd8fe	comment	And the Affably Evil Vandamm more than keeps up with him, leading to some fabulous one-liners and plenty of Snark-to-Snark Combat.
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North by Northwest / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
North by Northwest / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Leonard.
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North by Northwest / int_56725578	type	Driving a Desk
North by Northwest / int_56725578	comment	Driving a Desk: Used seamlessly in the crop-duster scene.
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North by Northwest / int_571833a	type	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?
North by Northwest / int_571833a	comment	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: The woman, whose hospital room Thornhill intrudes through, certainly seems to have this attitude.
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North by Northwest / int_58030b25	type	Visual Innuendo
North by Northwest / int_58030b25	comment	Visual Innuendo: This film concludes with the "train going into a tunnel" version. Here!
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North by Northwest / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
North by Northwest / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Unusually for a Hitchcock film, this is averted. The police save Roger's life twice by arresting him, for drunk driving on Long Island and for disrupting the auction in Chicago. A third time, a man in uniform (not clear if he's a Park Ranger, Sheriff, or State Trooper) shoots Leonard as he's about to make Roger fall from Mount Rushmore.
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North by Northwest / int_5a15b2e9	type	Mischief for Punishment
North by Northwest / int_5a15b2e9	comment	Mischief for Punishment: Thornhill intentionally gets himself arrested for disorderly conduct to escape the men at the auction who want to kill him.
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North by Northwest / int_5b01a021	type	The Calls Are Coming from Inside the House
North by Northwest / int_5b01a021	comment	The Calls Are Coming from Inside the Hotel: Thornhill gets a call from the bad guys while casing Kaplan's room at the Plaza. He then finds out from the hotel's switchboard operator that the call came from the lobby.
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North by Northwest / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
North by Northwest / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: The whole plot is kicked off because of one that's very easy to miss unless you're looking for it. Listen very closely to the background noise in the opening scene where Thornhill is sitting in the hotel bar with his associates, you can hear a bellboy announcing there's a page for "George Kaplan." Thornhill puts his hand up for an unrelated reason (he wants to send a telegram), and the spies assume he's Kaplan, because from their vantage point it looks like he's answering the page. This is made much clearer in the stage production.
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North by Northwest / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
North by Northwest / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Valerian and Leonard (although Leonard was already dead from the bullet). Also, when Leonard tells Vandamm that Eve is revealed to be a mole, Vandamm tells him they will kill her by pushing her out of the plane when it's flying over water. Thankfully, Eve never makes it to the plane.
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North by Northwest / int_5d397b9c	type	The Mountains of Illinois
North by Northwest / int_5d397b9c	comment	The Mountains of Illinois: The film features a treacherous drunken car chase along the Cliffs of Glen Cove, played in this picture by the cliffs of the California coastline. The north shore of Long Island is rocky, but not THAT rocky. Also, the crop-duster scene was filmed near Bakersfield, California, not in the middle of an Indiana cornfield, although the appropriate highway signs were transplanted. Indiana doesn't look as dry as it does in the movie, even during droughts. Hitchcock had someone scout locations in Indiana and Iowa, but it was decided that Reality Is Unrealistic and the California setting was closer to what Hitchcock wanted.
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North by Northwest / int_5d9b8c3a	type	Femme Fatale Spy
North by Northwest / int_5d9b8c3a	comment	Femme Fatale Spy: Eve Kendall. Doubly so once it's revealed she's the mole working for the United States government.
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North by Northwest / int_5e1ecc50	type	Mistaken for Badass
North by Northwest / int_5e1ecc50	comment	Mistaken for Badass / Mistaken for Murderer: Valerian tries to kill Thornhill with a knife in the United Nations, but it hits the real Townsend and Thornhill makes the mistake of picking up the knife in front of the crowd, making it appear he is the perpetrator.
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North by Northwest / int_5e68bb61	type	Gayngster
North by Northwest / int_5e68bb61	comment	Gayngster: Leonard, though this being the 1950s, it's only implied.
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North by Northwest / int_5efcf52f	type	Missed the Bus
North by Northwest / int_5efcf52f	comment	Missed the Bus: In his cameo, Hitchcock narrowly misses his bus.
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North by Northwest / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
North by Northwest / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Thornhill screws up both plans (see below) before being incorporated into them.
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North by Northwest / int_61375e57	type	BigDamnKiss
North by Northwest / int_61375e57	comment	Big Damn Kiss: Quite a few between Thornhill and Eve on the train. Thornhill and Eve again in the woods in South Dakota after the diner scene. Thornhill and Eve again in the final scene.
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North by Northwest / int_62518d4a	type	Sorry Ociffer
North by Northwest / int_62518d4a	comment	Sorry Ociffer: Thornhill is force-fed a quart of bourbon and put behind the wheel of a car on a cliffside road to kill himself. He manages to escape his foes, but gets caught by the police. At the station he absolutely admits that he's drunk, but can't get them to believe the circumstances.
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North by Northwest / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
North by Northwest / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Vandamm really was genuinely fond of Eve. He does not take her betrayal well. Not at all. Towards the end, we find out he has a sister, too, who played the role of the fake Mrs. Townsend earlier in the film.
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North by Northwest / int_6404635	type	Dramatic Shattering
North by Northwest / int_6404635	comment	Dramatic Shattering: When Leonard is shot, he drops the statue containing the microfilm before falling off the mountain. When the statue hits the rock, it shatters, revealing the microfilm inside.
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North by Northwest / int_658854ee	type	I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder
North by Northwest / int_658854ee	comment	I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder: "I'm an advertising man, not a red herring."
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North by Northwest / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
North by Northwest / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: Vandamm believes Thornhill is guilty of this trope, believing him to be George Kaplan, despite Thornhill's arguments to the contrary. Of course, once Thornhill has become too involved, it hardly matters anyway.
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North by Northwest / int_663f35c0	type	Only One Name
North by Northwest / int_663f35c0	comment	Only One Name: Thornhill's secretary Maggie, Leonard, Valerian and Licht. Subverted with Vandamm, his first name is revealed to be Phillip.
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North by Northwest / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
North by Northwest / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: You can make a case that The Professor is the closest Hitchcock came to having one of these in a film, since he's a droll, wily Englishman with a dry sense of humor who excels in challenging situations, and, in his role as Mr. Exposition, knows how to tell a story and properly convey a scenario.
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North by Northwest / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
North by Northwest / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Two. Emile Klinger, the officer who arrests Thornhill for drink-driving after the first attempt on his life. The man's surname refers to Thornhill's attempts to cling to reality as at first he doesn't know what is going on. Also doubles as Foreshadowing to the Mount Rushmore scenes at the end of the film. Townsend. The murder of the real Lester Townsend (Town-Send) sends Thornhill from New York to Chicago to South Dakota.
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North by Northwest / int_6de438eb	type	The Everyman
North by Northwest / int_6de438eb	comment	Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill is The Everyman and not a super-spy. Likewise, espionage is generally treated realistically. Eve Kendall points out that she was a wealthy socialite who knew Vandamm in social occassions and the US Government turned her as a spy for them by largely continuing as his girlfriend and remaining close to him. Most espionage usually happens in social conditions and spies largely pose as civilians. It is the elaborate and baroque plot that really forces characters into action sequences.
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North by Northwest / int_6e27397	type	Missed Him by That Much
North by Northwest / int_6e27397	comment	Missed Him by That Much: On the train, Eve warns Thornhill that the train is making an unscheduled stop and two police officers (looking for him) are making their way onboard. They both leave the dining car just as said officers enter the car from the other end.
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North by Northwest / int_6fb4d332	type	Invulnerable Knuckles
North by Northwest / int_6fb4d332	comment	Invulnerable Knuckles: When Vandamm wallops Leonard, he has to reset his knuckles before continuing.
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North by Northwest / int_70b840b6	type	Giving Them the Strip
North by Northwest / int_70b840b6	comment	Giving Them the Strip: Eve discards her scarf, jacket, and shoes in succession during the Mount Rushmore chase.
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North by Northwest / int_71098e78	type	Hammer and Sickle Removed for Your Protection
North by Northwest / int_71098e78	comment	Hammer and Sickle Removed for Your Protection: The movie never mentions exactly who Vandamm and his associates are passing government secrets on to, although it's vaguely implied to be some foreign country. The line "War is hell, Mr. Thornhill. Even when it's a cold one." is as close as the movie comes to spelling it out.
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North by Northwest / int_72778cf	type	Luxurious Liquor
North by Northwest / int_72778cf	comment	Luxurious Liquor: Various upper-class characters are shown with different "libations" frequently, it becomes a plot point when Leonard forces a bottle of bourbon down Thornhill's throat.
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North by Northwest / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
North by Northwest / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Not once, but twice the villains choose an overly elaborate method to try and kill Thornhill, from which he is easily able to escape: first by getting him drunk and putting him behind the wheel of a car so that he'll drive into the ocean and it'll look like an accident, and the second being the entire scene with the crop duster. Hitchcock did acknowledge that the crop-duster scene is needlessly complex, but pointed out that no one thinks that while they're actually in the cinema. When Valerian kills Townsend with the knife, Thornhill grabs it, making it appear as if he is the murderer. Now he has the police to worry about. Also defied, as when he calls his mother after that, he says taking the train is safer than taking a plane as if someone was looking for him, it would be easier to hide on a train.
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North by Northwest / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
North by Northwest / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: Vandamm and Leonard are up to no good but the US government is indifferent to the plight of Thornhill, even though his life gets screwed over because of their misinformation campaign. Later, the government even tells Eve Kendall to sacrifice Thornhill for the greater good, leading Eve to send Roger out to get killed in the cornfield. The government finally decides to step in and save Thornhill but tell him that Eve will be married to Vandamm and serve as The Mole which makes Roger angry telling the government (as an Audience Surrogate) that if that was their way of fighting the Cold War, maybe they should lose it.
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North by Northwest / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
North by Northwest / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: Thornhill, up to a certain moment, is this to both the Professor's and Vandamm's plans.
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North by Northwest / int_74b85afd	type	If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!
North by Northwest / int_74b85afd	comment	If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!: Eve Kendall, the spy, proves her loyalty to Vandamm by shooting Roger Thornhill, or so it seems until Leonard figures out the truth. This is averted earlier, where Eve earlier did betray Thornhill to Vandamm after meeting him on the train and the US government were indifferent to Thornhill getting killed. Eve, still under her cover as spy, hugs Thornhill upon finding out that he was alive.
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North by Northwest / int_77195de1	type	Contagious Laughter
North by Northwest / int_77195de1	comment	Cue the bad guys deflecting the question by breaking into laughter, which then spreads to the rest of the elevator passengers, including Mrs. Thornhill.
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North by Northwest / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
North by Northwest / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: If Roger had remembered to tell his secretary that his mother was playing bridge that night, he would not have had to send a telegram and thus would not have been mistaken for George Kaplan.
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North by Northwest / int_7ac5c1de	type	Unishment
North by Northwest / int_7ac5c1de	comment	Unishment: Roger causes an uproar in the midst of an auction by placing outlandish bids and getting confrontational with anyone who outbids him. Eventually, security is called to escort him out of the building â€” which is exactly what he wanted, since there were two men in the room who were planning to kill him.
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North by Northwest / int_7e1eccce	type	Orbital Kiss
North by Northwest / int_7e1eccce	comment	Orbital Kiss: Played with. The train car in which Roger and Eve perform their first kiss proved too small to allow a cameraman to rotate around them, so the actors turned around while kissing.
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North by Northwest / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
North by Northwest / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Thornhill himself is hinted to be one. Though he insists (when on the phone with his mother following the drunken chase in Glen Cove) that he wasn't trying to get drunk this time, the latter's verbal scoffing indicates she's not convinced; she already has a habit of sniffing his breath "like a bloodhound," and at the Oak Bar, his colleagues joke that he "may be slow in starting, but there's nobody faster coming down the home stretch." He later tells the Professor that he has "several bartenders that depend upon me."
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North by Northwest / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
North by Northwest / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Thornhill didn't mean to do it, but his getting involved with Eve while Vandamm thinks Thornhill is after him aroused Vandamm's suspicion of her and put her life at risk. Thornhill has an Oh, Crap! when the Professor tells him so. To save her, Thornhill has to pretend to actually be Kaplan.
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North by Northwest / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
North by Northwest / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: During the auction scene, Thornhill bids $13 when the auctioneer had just set the bid at $1300. The other auction attendees, who were initially flustered at his previous oddball statements, actually laugh at this one.
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North by Northwest / int_810c980e	type	Serial Spouse
North by Northwest / int_810c980e	comment	Serial Spouse: Thornhill mentions having two ex-wives a few times. At the end, Eve is his third.
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North by Northwest / int_81a1960f	type	Silence Is Golden
North by Northwest / int_81a1960f	comment	Silence Is Golden: Except for some small talk between Thornhill and the guy waiting for the bus, the crop duster scene doesn't have dialogue or background music up until the plane crashes into the truck.
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North by Northwest / int_82e40acf	type	Whammy Bid
North by Northwest / int_82e40acf	comment	Whammy Bid: Thornhill places comically-low bids at the auction and gets confrontational about it, in order to get himself arrested and thus get a police escort away from his enemies.
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North by Northwest / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
North by Northwest / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Licht, Vandamm's henchman wearing a hat, disappears without explanation midway through the film. In the script, he was one of the two men in the cropduster but there's nothing in the film to suggest this. We never see Thornhill's mother again after he flees from the hotel. We do not see what happens to Vandamm's housekeeper but we can assume Roger overpowered her when he realized the gun was the one Eve had used on him.
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North by Northwest / int_87ab7f69	type	Sharp-Dressed Man
North by Northwest / int_87ab7f69	comment	Sharp-Dressed Man: Thornhill dresses in the same grey suit for much of the film, only changing his attire near the end after being provided with fresh clothes. Vandamm, Leonard, Valerian and Licht also all dress in suits.
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North by Northwest / int_89102272	type	Artistic Title
North by Northwest / int_89102272	comment	Artistic Title: The opening sequence, designed by Saul Bass, depicts the credits sliding up and down the glass facade of a Manhattan office building.
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North by Northwest / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
North by Northwest / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: That Mercedes convertible they try to kill Thornhill in.
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North by Northwest / int_8ca89acb	type	I Need to Go Iron My Dog
North by Northwest / int_8ca89acb	comment	I Need to Go Iron My Dog: When Thornhill warns Eve that Vandamm and Leonard know of her duplicity, she tells them she left her earrings in her room and goes up there, where Thornhill tells her the statue Vandamm bought at the art auction has microfilm inside it, something she didn't previously know.
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North by Northwest / int_8cb844c6	type	Mr. Exposition
North by Northwest / int_8cb844c6	comment	Mr. Exposition: The Professor has an important role in the story, but his main function is to explain to other characters (and the audience) what exactly the deal is with George Kaplan and Vandamm.
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North by Northwest / int_8ee710e7	type	Better Manhandle the Murder Weapon
North by Northwest / int_8ee710e7	comment	Better Manhandle the Murder Weapon: Conveniently, a newspaper photographer is present to take an incriminating photo at the exact moment the real Townsend falls on Thornhill. Not getting what's happening, Thornhill pulls the knife out of the Townsend's back, right when the photographer takes the picture. The look on Roger's face doesn't help, either. Then his guilty-looking mug is plastered on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
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North by Northwest / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
North by Northwest / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Leonard gets shot by a sniper and falls over the edge of Mount Rushmore when he tries to cause Thornhill and Eve to fall off by stepping on Thornhill's fingers.
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North by Northwest / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
North by Northwest / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Phillip Vandamm.
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North by Northwest / int_973ba076	type	Safety in Muggles
North by Northwest / int_973ba076	comment	Safety in Muggles: Thornhill in Grand Central Terminal after being wrongly suspected of the murder of the real Lester Townsend, and again during the auction scene.
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North by Northwest / int_97ee273	type	Momma's Boy
North by Northwest / int_97ee273	comment	Momma's Boy: Thornhill, at least to the extent that it's his mother who he calls to bail him out of jail and assist him in casing "Kaplan"'s room at the Plaza. To some extent, the plot is also kicked off due to him calling for a bellboy to have a telegram safely delivered to her.
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North by Northwest / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
North by Northwest / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: The truth about Kaplan is explained incredibly awkwardly by the Professor to the only other people in the world who already know about it.
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North by Northwest / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
North by Northwest / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette: Roger is abducted and nearly killed by someone pretending to be Townsend, whom Roger later learns is a UN diplomat. After narrowly surviving the attempt on his life, Roger visits the UN General Assembly building to confront Townsend. Townsend turns out to be someone he has never seen before, and shortly after Roger arrives, is killed by one of the men who tried to kill Roger. Roger was manipulated into meeting Townsend so that Townsend's enemies could kill him in a way that would look like Roger was responsible. But how did they know Roger would seek Townsend out? And if they needed Roger as a patsy, why try to kill him? And how did they know the attempt to kill Roger would fail? However, it could be something else going on here. They were clearly following Thornhill, because He Knows Too Much and they'd already failed to kill him, so were waiting for another opportunity. Thornhill confronts the real Townsend and might have told him that somebody was impersonating him and occupying his house. Killing Thornhill at this point would just make Townsend even more suspicious. Thornhill already knows he's being chased, so the best solution at that moment is to get rid of Townsend.
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North by Northwest / int_9a9eb4dd	type	Hand Stomp
North by Northwest / int_9a9eb4dd	comment	Hand Stomp / Hanging by the Fingers: The climax sees Roger holding onto the edge of a cliff while attempting to help up Eve. Then Leonard appears. When Roger asks him for help, Leonard decides to step on his fingers and get them to fall. Although he is later shot by a sniper in the distance.
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North by Northwest / int_9ae0ead1	type	Villains Out Shopping
North by Northwest / int_9ae0ead1	comment	Villains Out Shopping: When we first see Leonard at Townsend's estate, he's playing a game of croquet before Licht interrupts him. Subverted. Vandamm and his men (plus Eve) attend the art auction in Chicago, but only so they can get hold of the statue they intend to hide microfilm in.
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North by Northwest / int_9cad69bf	type	Depraved Homosexual
North by Northwest / int_9cad69bf	comment	Depraved Homosexual: Leonard is implied to be one.
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North by Northwest / int_9ce83619	type	The Corpse Stops Here
North by Northwest / int_9ce83619	comment	The Corpse Stops Here: The style in which Lester Townsend is killed, turning Thornhill into a fugitive.
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North by Northwest / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
North by Northwest / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Emile Klinger, the officer who arrests Thornhill for drink-driving after the first attempt on his life. The man's surname refers to Thornhill's attempts to cling to reality as at first he doesn't know what is going on. Also doubles as Foreshadowing to the Mount Rushmore scenes at the end of the film.
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North by Northwest / int_9dfd7154	type	Fridge Logic
North by Northwest / int_9dfd7154	comment	Not once, but twice the villains choose an overly elaborate method to try and kill Thornhill, from which he is easily able to escape: first by getting him drunk and putting him behind the wheel of a car so that he'll drive into the ocean and it'll look like an accident, and the second being the entire scene with the crop duster. Hitchcock did acknowledge that the crop-duster scene is needlessly complex, but pointed out that no one thinks that while they're actually in the cinema.
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North by Northwest / int_9e9203e1	type	Dramatically Missing the Point
North by Northwest / int_9e9203e1	comment	Dramatically Missing the Point: Also used as a darkly comical element as well, but Vandamm, who tries to come off as clever and shrewd, doesn't get that the person he assumes is deceiving him (Roger) is on the level, while the person closest to him (Eve) is the deceptive one.
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North by Northwest / int_a042bfb	type	Sexâ€“Face Turn
North by Northwest / int_a042bfb	comment	Sexâ€“Face Turn: Eve, although technically since she was a mole all along she never really loved her crime boss partner in the first place.
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North by Northwest / int_a3912d0e	type	Sexy Discretion Shot
North by Northwest / int_a3912d0e	comment	Sexy Discretion Shot: The film ends with a shot of a train entering a tunnel as Roger and Eve are about to make love. Knowing Hitchcock's sense of humour, this was deliberate.
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North by Northwest / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
North by Northwest / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: As well as the Hamlet reference, it's also about how the protagonist has to go north on Northwest Airlines.
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North by Northwest / int_a588cd12	type	Cool House
North by Northwest / int_a588cd12	comment	Cool House: Vandamm's Frank Lloyd Wright-style abode on Mount Rushmore.
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North by Northwest / int_a632f7fa	type	Cool Train
North by Northwest / int_a632f7fa	comment	Cool Train: The 20th Century Limited.
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North by Northwest / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
North by Northwest / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: Both the microfilm and George Kaplan, since the first two acts of the movie are about Thornhill and Vandamm both looking for the nonexistent spy.
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North by Northwest / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
North by Northwest / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: Happens a few times. First, three attempts are made by the enemy spies on Thornhill's life: getting him drunk by forcing a whole bottle of bourbon down his throat, putting him behind the wheel of a car so that he'll drive into the ocean and it'll look like an accident, a knife is thrown at him, but it misses and kills the real Lester Townsend instead, and finally the crop-duster sequence. The film takes place in three main locations: New York, Chicago and South Dakota. Roger uses a bathroom as a hiding place three times, two of them during the train sequence. At the end of the film, Eve has become Thornhill's third wife.
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North by Northwest / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
North by Northwest / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: The crop duster plane is evidently equipped with guns that its occupants fire at Roger to try and kill Roger, but barely miss him.
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North by Northwest / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
North by Northwest / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Thornhill does this during the auction scene to make himself look like an idiot, causing the police to be called and escort him past Vandamm's goons covering the exits.
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North by Northwest / int_a8660c25	type	Soft-Spoken Sadist
North by Northwest / int_a8660c25	comment	Soft-Spoken Sadist: Vandamm and Leonard are calm and methodical, relying on menace and intimidation to achieve their goals.
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North by Northwest / int_aa9fcfed	type	Embarrassing Middle Name
North by Northwest / int_aa9fcfed	comment	Embarrassing Middle Name: Roger Thornhill's middle initial is O, making his initials R.O.T. Doesn't stop him from having his matchbooks monogrammed, though. This is actually a subversion, as Roger explains that the O doesn't stand for anything, he just added it so it looked like he had a middle name.
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North by Northwest / int_ab1659d5	type	Hero Stole My Bike
North by Northwest / int_ab1659d5	comment	Hero Stole My Bike: After the crop-duster crashes, Thornhill steals the truck of a passer-by to get back to Chicago.
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North by Northwest / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
North by Northwest / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: As the second act begins, the Professor explains to his subordinates (and the audience) that Kaplan doesn't actually exist, and is a carefully-maintained fiction that serves as the cover for their real spy. Later, the audience sees Eve tip off Thornhill's enemies, revealing that she is part of Vandamm's spy ring. The two coincide in the crop duster attack, where Thornhill cluelessly goes to a rendezvous Eve claims to have set up after calling Kaplan, meaning we know he's walking into a trap but not the form.
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North by Northwest / int_ac2094ca	type	Red Shirt
North by Northwest / int_ac2094ca	comment	Red Shirt: The real Lester Townsend, who only serves to show that the man Thornhill thought was Townsend is not who he thought he was, and to be killed so that Thornhill now has to clear his name of a crime he didn't commit.
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North by Northwest / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
North by Northwest / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Thornhill after the murder of Lester Townsend and realizing everyone thinks he's done it because he has the murder weapon in his hand. Thornhill on the train when Eve warns him that the train is making an unscheduled stop and two police officers are boarding it. They both promptly leave the dining car. Thornhill when he sees the crop-dusting plane bearing down on him. And then again when it looks like the truck he is flagging down is about to run him down. Thornhill, accompanied by a slow zoom into his face and him saying "Oh, no" when the Professor tells him that his getting close to Eve has put her life at risk because Vandamm is now suspicious of her and could find out she's working against him. Towards the end, Eve has one when she sees and recognises Thornhill's matchbook he had thrown down to her, and again when she reads the message inside it. Then a third time when Thornhill tells her that Vandamm and Leonard know of her duplicity and plan to kill her. In the climax, Eve again when she sees Valerian about to attack Thornhill on Mount Rushmore.
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North by Northwest / int_ad7a381d	type	P.O.V. Cam
North by Northwest / int_ad7a381d	comment	P.O.V. Cam: When a park ranger slugs Thornhill in the face on the Professor's orders, to prevent his detaining Eve. Also later on when Vandamm punches Leonard after the latter proves to the former that Eve didn't really shoot Thornhill.
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North by Northwest / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
North by Northwest / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Roger Thornhill. He is played by Cary Grant, after all. And the Affably Evil Vandamm more than keeps up with him, leading to some fabulous one-liners and plenty of Snark-to-Snark Combat. Roger's mother is one, too.
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North by Northwest / int_aebae11c	type	Viewers Are Morons
North by Northwest / int_aebae11c	comment	Viewers Are Morons: The entire scene in which government officials explain in an extreme As You Know mode to tell the audience what those officials already knew, including the fact Kaplan doesn't exist.
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North by Northwest / int_b09c818	type	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word
North by Northwest / int_b09c818	comment	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: After Thornhill's secretary scolds him for lying to get a cab (see Failing a Taxi, below) he informs her that "in the world of advertising, there's no such thing as a lie; there's only the expedient exaggeration."
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North by Northwest / int_b25eb401	type	Exposition Cut
North by Northwest / int_b25eb401	comment	Exposition Cut: When Roger is brought up to speed, the exposition is drowned out by the noise of the plane engines, since we already know this stuff.
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North by Northwest / int_b63019a5	type	High-Heelâ€“Face Turn
North by Northwest / int_b63019a5	comment	High-Heelâ€“Face Turn: Eve, although it turns out that she was a mole all along.
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North by Northwest / int_b7c45771	type	Single Malt Vision
North by Northwest / int_b7c45771	comment	Single Malt Vision: Played disconcertingly straight - after Roger is force-fed a quart of whiskey and put behind the wheel of a car, he's trying to escape his pursuers, and seeing the road before him go two different directions.
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North by Northwest / int_b800a2e0	type	Failing a Taxi
North by Northwest / int_b800a2e0	comment	Failing a Taxi: In the opening scene — a man hails a cab, and Thornhill cuts in with his secretary and takes it, claiming she's "a very sick woman." After she chides him, he assures her his lie let the guy think he was doing them a favor.
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North by Northwest / int_bc3b029b	type	Impairment Shot
North by Northwest / int_bc3b029b	comment	Impairment Shot: Roger is force-fed a bottle of whiskey and put behind the wheel of a car â€“ as he makes a getaway we see the road from his seeing-double perspective, curving and going straight at the same time.
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North by Northwest / int_bc3cb7ff	type	Clear My Name
North by Northwest / int_bc3cb7ff	comment	Clear My Name: Roger sets out to do this when he's accused of murder. This is a Hitchcock film, after all.
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North by Northwest / int_bd0230fb	type	Ambiguously Bi
North by Northwest / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: Vandamm. "... I think you're jealous. No, I mean it. I'm very touched, very."
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North by Northwest / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
North by Northwest / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: The story opens in New York City and most of the first section takes place there, specifically the Plaza Hotel, the United Nations, and Grand Central Terminal (most of which were replicated on Hollywood soundstages, with only few exteriors).
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North by Northwest / int_c16b3149	type	Going by the Matchbook
North by Northwest / int_c16b3149	comment	Going by the Matchbook: Roger writes a warning to Eve on his personal matchbook with his initials (R.O.T.) on them and secretly throws it next to her at Vandamm's house. When they first met on the train earlier Eve noticed his matchbook and asked what the "O" stood for. Roger's reply: "Nothing." This was a sly dig at producer David O. Selznick, with whom Hitchcock had regular battles for creative control; his middle initial also didn't stand for anything.
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North by Northwest / int_c295cb84	type	Evil Minions
North by Northwest / int_c295cb84	comment	Evil Minions: Valerian, Licht, "Mrs. Townsend," etc.
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North by Northwest / int_c3c77510	type	There Is Only One Bed
North by Northwest / int_c3c77510	comment	There Is Only One Bed: Roger hides out in Eve's room on a train ride to Chicago. As they make out passionately he observes there's only one bed, asking if she knows what that means. She knows - he's sleeping on the floor.
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North by Northwest / int_c4e3afda	type	Mum Looks Like a Sister
North by Northwest / int_c4e3afda	comment	Mum Looks Like a Sister: Cary Grant was 55 years old at the time. Jessie Royce Landis, who played his mother, was 63 years-old, meaning she would have to have given birth when she was 8 years old.
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North by Northwest / int_c5ccf60f	type	Internal Reveal
North by Northwest / int_c5ccf60f	comment	Internal Reveal: The audience learns the truth about Kaplan at the end of the first act. See Plot-Based Voice Cancellation for when Thornhill finds out.
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North by Northwest / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
North by Northwest / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Seeing Vandamm and Leonard together with Eve at the Chicago art auction leads Thornhill to comment, "The three of you together. Now that's a picture only Charles Addams could draw." In the same scene Vandamm tells Roger that with all the roles he's been playing, he could use "a little less training from the FBI and a little more from the Actors Studio." Eva Marie Saint and Martin Landau both studied there. Shout Out: To Shakespeare: Some theorize that the title refers to Hamlet's line that he's only pretending to be insane: "I am but mad north-northwest." When Roger is pretending to shower in the Chicago hotel room, he starts whistling "Singin' in the Rain."
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North by Northwest / int_c960826	type	Supporting Protagonist
North by Northwest / int_c960826	comment	Supporting Protagonist: Eve Kendall is the true spy hero of the film. It was on her behalf and for her sake, that the US Government Agency manufactured the George Kaplan identity which got Roger Thornhill involved in her case. She's the one who commits to her mission and decides to steal the microfilm from the bad guys at the end, and the entire plot is mostly driven by her actions.
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North by Northwest / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
North by Northwest / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: But of course. Vandamm refuses to believe Thornhill is anyone other than George Kaplan. Towards the end, Thornhill even has to willingly pretend to be George Kaplan for Eve's sake.
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North by Northwest / int_d5d976dd	comment	I Have Many Names: Invoked by Vandamm after Roger's confused response to being called "Kaplan" for the first time.
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North by Northwest / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
North by Northwest / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Subverted twice when Thornhill makes an unsuccessful escape attempt. The first time, after Valerian and Licht escort him to the car, he goes for the door, only to find it locked. He tries again at Townsend's estate, only to find Valerian blocking the doorway. Double-subverted in the auction scene, where he tries to leave and finds the exits covered, so he makes an idiot of himself to get the police called and escort him out. Eve at the end does this when the gunshot rings out and she uses the distraction to snatch the statue from Vandamm and run.
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North by Northwest / int_da75a16f	type	Monumental Battle
North by Northwest / int_da75a16f	comment	Monumental Battle: The end of the film takes place on Mount Rushmore.
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North by Northwest / int_db08fb56	type	Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are
North by Northwest / int_db08fb56	comment	Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: Eve says this to Roger after the porter leaves to let him know he can come out from hiding in the bathroom.
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North by Northwest / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
North by Northwest / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Thornhill becomes one in the film against his will and uses the phrase to the Professor: "I'm an advertising man, not a red herring!"
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North by Northwest / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
North by Northwest / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Several, beginning with Roger Thornhill summoning a hotel bellboy at the very moment said bellboy is paging "George Kaplan."
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North by Northwest / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
North by Northwest / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: The Professor is a calm, fatherly man. At first he seems a bit cruel in forcing Roger to fend for himself against Vandamm, until you learn that Eve is his deep cover Mole in Vandamm's cell but he eventually figures out ways to protect Roger in a potentially deadly predicament, gets Roger to cooperate through intelligent persuasion, and even manages to crack a couple of jokes to calm down an understandably-tense Roger.
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North by Northwest / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
North by Northwest / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: In the scene in the CIA after the scene in the United Nations where Thornhill is framed as the murderer of the real Lester Townsend, the Professor mentions "their own agent" who later turns out to be Eve. Literally, considering the diner scene.
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North by Northwest / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
North by Northwest / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: Vandamm, the Professor, Thornhill and Eve have their own elaborate plans, which clash constantly.
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North by Northwest / int_defabcb9	type	Creepy Blue Eyes
North by Northwest / int_defabcb9	comment	Creepy Blue Eyes: Leonard.
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North by Northwest / int_df41acb	type	Casual Danger Dialogue
North by Northwest / int_df41acb	comment	Casual Danger Dialogue: At the climax, Roger and Eve engage in witty banter while dangling by their fingertips from Mt. Rushmore.
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North by Northwest / int_df4b69d6	type	Uncomfortable Elevator Moment
North by Northwest / int_df4b69d6	comment	Uncomfortable Elevator Moment: Played for black comedy, as Vandamm's henchmen follow Roger and his mother into a crowded elevator at the Plaza Hotel. Cue the bad guys deflecting the question by breaking into laughter, which then spreads to the rest of the elevator passengers, including Mrs. Thornhill.
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North by Northwest / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
North by Northwest / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: Leonard. "Call it my woman's intuition."
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North by Northwest / int_e35ab565	type	Indy Ploy
North by Northwest / int_e35ab565	comment	Indy Ploy: Thornhill quickly becomes adept at making escape plans on the fly.
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North by Northwest / int_e37f19	type	Disguised in Drag
North by Northwest / int_e37f19	comment	Contrary to rumor, he didn't make a second cameo Disguised in Drag on the train. That was veteran character actress Jesslyn Fax (who does look a lot like a female Hitchcock).
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North by Northwest / int_e404c1ba	type	Go Seduce My Archnemesis
North by Northwest / int_e404c1ba	comment	Go Seduce My Archnemesis: Eve was supposed to seduce Thornhill for the explicit purpose of leading him to his death in a cornfield. It doesn't work.
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North by Northwest / int_e63228a7	type	InfoDump
North by Northwest / int_e63228a7	comment	Info Dump: The government agency takes a few minutes to explain what we already know.
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North by Northwest / int_e70127	type	The Mole
North by Northwest / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Eve is made out to be Vandamm's mistress, but she's working for the government. She was originally a Socialite bogged with Rich Boredom and she genuinely did like Vandamm and admitted to falling for him, but then the US Government told her about Vandamm's shadiness and asked her to work as a mole.
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North by Northwest / int_e8147834	type	Elevator Escape
North by Northwest / int_e8147834	comment	Elevator Escape: Roger needs to flee a hotel before the villain's goons come for him, and he reaches the elevator going down - just as they get out of the next elevator, and promptly follow him in. Roger has his mother in tow, who refuses to believe he's in any danger.
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North by Northwest / int_e9269f72	type	It Was Here, I Swear!
North by Northwest / int_e9269f72	comment	It Was Here, I Swear!: When Thornhill takes the county detectives back to the house where Vandamm and his two goons had detained him. For instance, there are a lot of books where he remembered the henchmen getting a bottle of bourbon.
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North by Northwest / int_e9f517e1	type	Artistic License â€“ Geography
North by Northwest / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License â€“ Geography: Roger is seen driving on a treacherous, winding coastal road along cliffs several hundred feet high... in Long Island, New York! While there are some small cliffs in parts of Long Island, there is no scenery or road there anywhere approaching the type of landscape he was driving in, which was clearly modeled after the California coast. Though in another scene, the movie got it right: when Roger and his secretary are riding in a taxi from his Madison Avenue office to the Plaza Hotel, the view through the taxi's back window is the actual route a vehicle would take between the two locations.
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North by Northwest / int_ea38ddd5	type	Sissy Villain
North by Northwest / int_ea38ddd5	comment	Sissy Villain: Leonard refers to his suspicion of who the double-agent is as his "woman's intuition" and Vandamm comments that he thinks Leonard is jealous of his relationship with Eve.
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North by Northwest / int_ea8de006	type	Traitor Shot
North by Northwest / int_ea8de006	comment	Traitor Shot: The film contains one of the more complicated uses of this trope. It's true that Eve is working for the villain, but she turns out to be a double agent who is actually working for the US government, and she tries to balance betraying Roger with keeping him safe.
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North by Northwest / int_eadeb4d6	type	Climbing Climax
North by Northwest / int_eadeb4d6	comment	Climbing Climax: The final fight on Mount Rushmore.
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North by Northwest / int_ebb3c390	type	Crash-Into Hello
North by Northwest / int_ebb3c390	comment	Crash-Into Hello: Roger and Eve meet this way on the train. Turns out this was all part of the plan.
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North by Northwest / int_ed503b22	type	Match Cut
North by Northwest / int_ed503b22	comment	Match Cut: One comes at the very end, as Roger goes from offering his hand to Eve on the cliff to pulling her onto the overhead bunk in a train cabin.
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North by Northwest / int_edebe3c8	type	Plot-Based Voice Cancellation
North by Northwest / int_edebe3c8	comment	Plot-Based Voice Cancellation: The Professor explains the whole "George Kaplan" scenario to Thornhill at the airport, and his voice is drowned out by the roar of plane engines. This is actually a rather clever inversion of the trope, in that we the viewers already know about the stuff he's talking about, so making the conversation inaudible is sparing us from the redundancy.
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North by Northwest / int_f0e340fd	type	Lost in the Maize
North by Northwest / int_f0e340fd	comment	Lost in the Maize: The crop-duster attack takes place in and around an Indiana cornfield.
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North by Northwest / int_f0e85546	type	Unbuilt Trope
North by Northwest / int_f0e85546	comment	Unbuilt Trope: This film was a huge inspiration on many spy films and series, such as James Bond and The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and yet seeing North by Northwest reveals a lot more original touches: Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill is The Everyman and not a super-spy. Likewise, espionage is generally treated realistically. Eve Kendall points out that she was a wealthy socialite who knew Vandamm in social occassions and the US Government turned her as a spy for them by largely continuing as his girlfriend and remaining close to him. Most espionage usually happens in social conditions and spies largely pose as civilians. It is the elaborate and baroque plot that really forces characters into action sequences. The film make it clear that a government spy agency, even the "good" guys, really do value the mission and intelligence gathering and they will be willing to let innocent people die rather than compromise the cover of their mission. Both the US government and Eve Kendall herself were willing to leave Roger to die by Van Damm's forces to better preserve Eve's cover. The only reason they resort to help Roger at the end, is because he's attracted too much heat and attention, and is phenomenally lucky as an Action Survivor. More importantly, Hitchcock and Lehman, denounce the entire profession of espionage and the Cold War. Roger Thornhill's main motivation in the final scene isn't stopping the Big Bad, it's rescuing Eve Kendall. Eve is the one who cares about the mission. The Big Bad gets captured, The Dragon gets killed by a random sergeant:
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North by Northwest / int_f1176f36	type	Second-Person Attack
North by Northwest / int_f1176f36	comment	Second-Person Attack: Happens twice. The first time occurs when Roger is knocked out by one of The Professor's men in the woods. The second time occurs when Leonard reveals to Vandamm that the gun Eve used contained blanks. Upon realizing this, an enraged Vandamm punches Leonard.
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North by Northwest / int_f16da697	type	Undying Loyalty
North by Northwest / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: Eve Kendall has this for the US Government. She notes that she was a bored rich Socialite who was charmed by Vandamm until the Government told her about his shady past and recruited her. She tells Roger in their conversation outside Mount Rushmore, that she saw it as the first time she was doing something worthwhile. She is fully committed to her mission for the greater good and even after her cover is blown on learning the "Pumpkin" has the microfilm, she insists on recovering it first, at the cost of her life if need-be.
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North by Northwest / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
North by Northwest / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: The Professor references this in a line to Thornhill towards the end: "War is hell, Mr. Thornhill, even when it's a cold one."
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North by Northwest / int_f247d841	type	Intoxication Ensues
North by Northwest / int_f247d841	comment	Intoxication Ensues: The first plan to kill Thornhill involves pouring a whole bottle of bourbon down his throat and trying to make it look like he killed himself drink-driving. Thornhill manages to escape, but, being extremely drunk, he almost collides with several motorists, then he overtakes a police car and gets arrested for drunk driving.
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North by Northwest / int_f2d29e14	type	Evil Brit
North by Northwest / int_f2d29e14	comment	Evil Brit: Vandamm, as played by James Mason at his most coldly malicious.
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North by Northwest / int_f4379d92	type	Double Reverse Quadruple Agent
North by Northwest / int_f4379d92	comment	Double Reverse Quadruple Agent: Eve. When Roger first meets her, she seems to be merely a smart and coy civilian woman who is not involved in Roger's whole mess and simply helps him out because she's attracted to him. Then we find out that she's actually working for Vandamm and is even his mistress. And then we find out that she's really working for the government and is actually The Mole in Vandamm's entourage.
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North by Northwest / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
North by Northwest / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Northwest Airlines has a sign at Midway Airport. Which makes for a very subtle, nonverbal Title Drop: Thornhill and the Professor fly north by Northwest from Chicago to Rapid City. Also, a quick but clear shot of a Bergdorf Goodman label inside Eve Kendall's purse.
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North by Northwest / int_f6f2ff1	type	Insult Backfire
North by Northwest / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: During the auction scene, Thornhill loudly asserts that one painting up for bidding "looks like a fake." An annoyed woman sitting near him says, "You're no fake. You're a genuine idiot." To which Thornhill simply says, "Thank you."
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North by Northwest / int_fa6bfde9	type	Have a Gay Old Time
North by Northwest / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: During the scene where Vandamm meets with Thornhill at the Mount Rushmore cafeteria:
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North by Northwest / int_fada6ffa	type	Lost in a Crowd
North by Northwest / int_fada6ffa	comment	Lost in a Crowd: As his train arrives in Chicago, Roger evades detection by the waiting police by dressing as a redcap (railroad baggage handler) — by the time the police find the real redcap onboard without his uniform (which Roger paid him for), Roger has disappeared into a sea of redcaps.
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North by Northwest / int_fdf7d23d	type	Lady in Red
North by Northwest / int_fdf7d23d	comment	Lady in Red: Eve wears a backless red dress when Thornhill confronts her after the crop-duster sequence, and during the auction scene.
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North by Northwest / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
North by Northwest / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: When Thornhill and his secretary ride in a taxi from his Madison Avenue workplace to the Plaza Hotel, the rear-projected view shown through the back window is of the actual route between the two locations. Every location is north by northwest. For example, said Manhattan taxi ride, New York to Chicago and so on.
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North by Northwest	hasFeature	Safety in Muggles / int_1af786d2
North by Northwest	hasFeature	Sexâ€“Face Turn / int_1af786d2
North by Northwest	hasFeature	Sexy Discretion Shot / int_1af786d2
North by Northwest	hasFeature	Short-Distance Phone Call / int_1af786d2
North by Northwest	hasFeature	Single Malt Vision / int_1af786d2
Sliding Scale of Film Obscurity	seeAlso	North by Northwest
North by Northwest	hasFeature	Sorry Ociffer / int_1af786d2
North by Northwest	hasFeature	Staged Shooting / int_1af786d2
North by Northwest	hasFeature	Standard Hollywood Strafing Procedure / int_1af786d2
North by Northwest	hasFeature	Sunglasses at Night / int_1af786d2
North by Northwest	hasFeature	Symbolic Glass House / int_1af786d2
North by Northwest	hasFeature	Take My Hand! / int_1af786d2
North by Northwest	hasFeature	The Calls Are Coming from Inside the House / int_1af786d2
North by Northwest	hasFeature	The Corpse Stops Here / int_1af786d2
North by Northwest	hasFeature	The Mountains of Illinois / int_1af786d2
North by Northwest	hasFeature	The Professor / int_1af786d2
North by Northwest	hasFeature	There Is Only One Bed / int_1af786d2
North by Northwest	hasFeature	Uncomfortable Elevator Moment / int_1af786d2
North by Northwest	hasFeature	Unishment / int_1af786d2
North by Northwest	hasFeature	Vehicular Assault / int_1af786d2
North by Northwest	hasFeature	Visual Innuendo / int_1af786d2
North by Northwest	hasFeature	Whammy Bid / int_1af786d2
North by Northwest	hasFeature	Writing Indentation Clue / int_1af786d2
BernardHermann	seeAlso	North by Northwest
North by Northwest	hasFeature	AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies / int_1af786d2

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