[garyhope]

The scene of Cary Grant being dropped off by bus in the middle of nowhere on that lonely road is one of the greatest film scenes ever. And the subtlety of the biplane flying by the first time way in the background is very clever of what's to come.

[JennysCool]

All of it’s just a gem. It always seemed to me like the first James Bond movie (although Cary doesn’t know he’s James Bond!), so I was amused to read a few weeks ago that the Bond producers patterned their early Bonds after “North By Northwest,” and that the helicopter-buzzing scene in “From Russia with Love” was their homage to it.

And Ian Fleming was said to have patterned Bond after Cary Grant in his novels — so it all comes full-circle!