1959. dir. Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Leo G. Carroll, Martin Landau.
I've said it once and I will say it again...I LOVE CARY GRANT!!!! There's just something about him that is so suave, so debonair, so, mmmmmmmm-sexy. Watching this movie was like falling in love for the first time. He plays a man mistaken for someone else and to clear his name he sets off to find some answers.
Villains in this movie are bad. Good guys in this movie are shady. You can't help but feel bad for Roger Thornhill (Grant) because he is constantly getting doubted by those who are supposed to be on his side. Even Eva Marie Saint played someone whose side was not quite clear.
I love how there were sexual innuendos in this film (and that apparently they had to redub the lines). I love that Cary Grant is so tan (eat your heart out George Hamilton!) and doesn't look orange! I love that Cary Grant is in this movie in practically every scene (as opposed to His Girl Friday where he wasn't in it nearly enough...and I love that I remembered the key scene because it was done in Sesame Street's Follow That Bird(crop-dusting bi-plane).
The story was really well done. The effects were great considering there was no green screen...movie magic eh? I remember going to Universal Studios and seeing how they did scenes similar to those atop Mt. Rushmore...It's impressive that technology in the late fifties made the chase scenes on the faces look real (and really dangerous). Of course no one can really film movies ON Mount Rushmore but the recreations were totally life-like!
Own it? Not yet but I'd like to own it.
Watch it again? Heck yes!
FYI 1212 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago - doesn't exist.
and according to imdb.com "Eva Marie Saint's line, "I never discuss love on an empty stomach," is dubbed over the line you can see her speaking on film: "I never make love on an empty stomach.""
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