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DVD Special Features: 39 Minute Behind-the-Scenes Documentary Destination Hitchcock: The Making of North By Northwest hosted by Eva Marie Saint and featuring Martin Landau, Screenwriter Ernest Lehman, Patricia Hitchcock and others involved in the film Feature length audio commentary by Ernest Lehman Music-only Audio Track showcasing Bernard Hermann's Score Production Stills Gallery TV Spot Trailer Interactive Menus Scene Access Language in Dolby Digital 5.1: English Language in Mono: French Subtitles: English, French, Italian, Dutch, Arabic, Spanish, German, English for the hearing impaired. From .co.uk ----------- A strong candidate for possibly the most entertaining and enjoyable film ever made by a Hollywood studio, North by Northwest is positioned between the much heavier and more profoundly disturbing ( /exec/obidos/asin/B00004RCOE%20/%24%7B0%7D ) (1958) and the stark horror of Psycho ( /exec/obidos/asin/B00004CZAT/%24%7B0%7D ) (1960). In the corpus of Alfred Hitchcock films it shows the director at his most effervescent in a romantic comedy-thriller that also features one of the definitive Cary Grant performances. Which is not to say that this is just "Hitchcock Lite". It's a classic Hitchcock Wrong Man scenario: Grant is Roger O Thornhill (initials ROT), an advertising executive who is mistaken by enemy spies for a US undercover agent named George Kan. Convinced these sinister fellows (James Mason as the boss and Martin Landau as his henchman) are trying to kill him, Roger flees and meets a sexy Stranger on a Train (Eva Marie Saint), with whom he engages in one of the longest, most convolutedly choreographed kisses in screen history. And of course there are the famous set pieces: the stabbing at the United Nations, the crop-duster plane attack in the cornfield (where a pedestrian has no place to hide) and the cliffhanger finale atop the stone faces of Rushmore. With its sparkling Ernest Lehman script and that pulse-quickening Bernard Herrmann score, what more could a filmgoer possibly desire? --Jim Emerson, .com On the DVD: This wide-screen print of the movie looks remarkably fresh, preserving the vivid depth of the original's VistaVision cinematography. The main extra feature is a new and entertaining 40-minute documentary hosted by Eva Marie Saint in which most of the surviving cast and crew give their ins into the making of the picture (we learn for example that canny Cary Grant charged 15 cents per autograph). Screenwriter Ernest Lehman provides an audio commentary and on a separate audio-only track Bernard Herrmann's masterful score can be heard in its entirety. There's also a stills gallery and trailers. --Mark Walker P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); Synopsis -------- North By Northwest is a suspense thriller that finds Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill, a Manhattan advertising executive mistaken for a set upas a killer. All of Thornhill's attempts to straighten things out only make matters worse and soon the desperate man is on the run From the Back Cover ------------------- Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is not a . And he's certainly no murderer. Nevertheless, Thornhill's a wanted man: enemy agents want him dead, the want him arrested, and a cool, mysterious blonde (Eva Marie Saint) just plain wants him. A victim of mistaken identity, Thornhill can't afford to make any mistakes of his own - so he embarks on a death defying run for his life. Relentlessly pursued by plane, train and automobile, Thornhill's cross-country chase finally ends atop Mt.Rushmore where, if he doesn't watch his step, he could be in for a terrible fall. Nominated for three 1959 Academy Awards, Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest is a masterful blend of suspense and romance, one of the best and most thrilling movie adventures ever created. See more ( javascript:void(0) )