[aristeides]

North by Northwest cropduster bump.

I was at a conference in the Plaza Hotel in New York a couple of years ago, so I asked the bartender in the Oak Room whether the Oak Room scenes in the movie had been shot there. He didn't have the slightest idea what I was talking about. But I got a videotape of the movie recently, which includes a documentary of the shooting of the movie. Turns out the Oak Room scenes were shot in a facsimile of the bar built in Hollywood.

The cropduster scenes were shot outside Bakersfield in California.

[Lazamataz]

I also picked up on the fact you can see Cary Grant near a sign saying I-47 in the corn field. Well, I know the film was filmed years ago, but I-47 is very short and very near Chicago, and it would have been overtaken by the city even then.