Posted on 09/22/2019 9:59:00 AM PDT by Rummyfan
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the release of North by Northwest. Here's what Mark had to say about this classic film a few years ago:
Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest contains what I think of as the all-time great strangers-on-a-train scene, and one I always recall if I'm in the dining car of an at least potentially exotic choo-choo - the Eurostar, say - and a glamorous femme comes sashaying down the aisle, even if she does park herself at some other guy's table. In a lifetime's travel, everyone should have a North by Northwest moment: on a famous train, the Twentieth Century Limited to Chicago, Cary Grant walks into a crowded dining car and is seated opposite Eva Marie Saint, the coolest of cool blondes. The conversation starts out quietly smouldering and heats up from there
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Great film. Hitchcock was a master of the art.
L
That’s a great scene. I’m sure it triggers milleniuls.
Steyn makes much of the fact that Lehman’s screenplay of The Sounds of Music overshadowed the play but I would say when it came to overshadowing plays, Lehman’s screenplay for West Side Story takes the cake.
What a writer!
Also, Clifford Odets had a lot to do with the script of The Sweet Smell of Success.
Amazing work. Simply amazing.
Cary Grant is still one of the 5 coolest men who ever lived.
L
“Distant Intimacy in the Dining Car”
It’s distant all right.
What a great exchange. Makes the girl very desirable IMO.
“She: This is ridiculous. You know that, don’t you?
He: Yes.
She: I mean, we’ve hardly met.
He: That’s right.
She: How do I know you aren’t a murderer?
He: You don’t.
She: Maybe you’re planning to murder me right here, tonight.
He: Shall I?
She: Please do.”
Great scene in a great movie.
Another thing about N X NW, I’ve never seen so many 1958 Fords in one movie.
Have always liked Hitchcock’s movies. Never seen that one. Will try to remedy that soon.
This, Rope and Strangers on a Train are my faves!
Eva Marie Saint is still alive and kicking at 95 years young. She was married one time and stayed married for 65 years, until her husband's death. Amazing.
“Grant was a big lib.”
He’d be a Republican today I imagine.
L
I used to subscribe to Popular Photography magazine.
I always turned to Kepler’s column first. One time he mentioned that he was doing photography on the set of a Hitchcock movie.
Alfred was intrigued by the camera, an Exakta made in Germany. He asked Kepler if he could look at it. He said Hitchcock looked it over for a while, thanked him and gave it back.
Hitchcock used that exact same camera and 400mm lens in “Rear Window”.
No doubt
Thanks for the great laugh!
Did Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick ever meet? Both of them were such camera and lens mavens.
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