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A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies.
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This is a classic of the genre, the era, and of a great film-maker's oeuvre. Everyone should see this to be conversant in great cinema.
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Harvey Stephens => Stockbroker (uncredited) Frank Wilcox => Herman Weitner (uncredited) Olan Soule => Assistant Auctioneer (uncredited) Robert Shayne => Larry Wade (uncredited) Nora Marlowe => Anna (uncredited) Maudie Prickett => Elsie (uncredited) Frank Marlowe => Taxi Driver (uncredited) Cary Grant => Roger Thornhill James Mason => Phillip Vandamm Eva Marie Saint => Eve Kendall Jessie Royce Landis => Clara Thornhill Leo G. Carroll => The Professor Philip Ober => Lester Townsend Josephine Hutchinson => Mrs. Townsend Martin Landau => Leonard Adam Williams => Valerian Edward Platt => Victor Larrabee Ken Lynch => Charley Robert Ellenstein => Licht Stanley Adams => Lieutenant Harding (uncredited) Tol Avery => State Police Detective (uncredited) Lawrence Dobkin => U.S. Intelligence Agency Official (uncredited) Jesslyn Fax => Woman on Train (uncredited) Bess Flowers => Hotel Lounge Patron (uncredited) Ned Glass => Ticket Seller (uncredited) Alfred Hitchcock => Man Who Misses Bus (uncredited) Kenner G. Kemp => Man Leaving Office Building (uncredited) Alexander Lockwood => Judge Anson Flynn (uncredited) Paula Winslowe => Woman at Auction (uncredited) Carleton Young => Fanning Nelson (uncredited)
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Trivia:
SPOILER:This movie is the culmination of one of Sir `~535~`'s favorite plot devices, of concluding the plot with a hair-raising fall from a great height. His other movies to end this way are @%Murder! (1930)%@, !~ahtlb_jamaica_inn~!~Jamaica Inn (1939)~!, @%Foreign Correspondent (1940)%@, @%Saboteur (1942)%@, @%Rear Window (1954)%@, and @%Vertigo (1958)%@.:SPOILER SPOILER:Sir `~535~` came up with the ending innuendo of the train entering the tunnel. He considered it one of his finest, naughtiest achievements. `~10537~`'s screenplay just ended with "the train heads off into the distance", or words to that effect. "There's no way I can take credit for (the tunnel)", Lehman said, adding: "Dammit.":SPOILER `~535~` cameo: man arriving at a bus stop during the opening credits, but getting there a second too late and the door is closed in his face. He misses the bus. Spoilers SPOILER:`~11602~` had to re-dub a particular line during post-production, to satisfy censors. The original line was "I never make love on an empty stomach", but was changed to "I never discuss love on an empty stomach". Yet the final scene, after she and `~1266~` are embracing on the upper berth, shows a train entering a tunnel.:SPOILER `~8521~` was Hitch's first choice to play Eve Kendall. MGM wanted `~11980~` for the female lead but Hitchcock preferred `~11602~`. `~5585~` was a candidate for Eva Kendall. Hitchcock's insistence on casting `~11602~` came as a surprise to some as she was known as a method actress often cast as dowdy or put upon housewives or girlfriends. Hitch joked with her that: "You don't cry in this one. There's no sink.". `~9700~` was suggested to play Roger Thornhill, but was never actually offered the part. Often thought of as the best amongst Sir `~535~`'s "wrong man" thrillers. Sir `~535~` considered `~5550~` for the role of Eve Kendall. Sir `~535~` and `~10537~` considered `~8482~` for the role of Phillip Vandamm. `~14336~` was a top contender for the role of Phillip Vandamm. `~8519~` and `~9606~` were considered for the role of Roger O Thornhill. MGM wanted Sir `~535~` to cast `~11980~` for the part of Eve Kendall, but Hitchcock insisted upon `~11602~`. MGM wanted `~11074~` to star as Roger O. Thornhill, but Sir `~535~` refused, claiming that he was too stone-faced. Sir `~535~` wanted `~Grace Kelly~` for the role of Eve Kendall, even though she was Princess of Monaco. According to the book "@%Haunted Idol: The Story of the Real `~1266~`%@" by `~Geoffrey Wansell~`, `~1266~` wanted `~Sophia Loren~` to play the part of Eve Kendall, but she turned the role down. `~Sophia Loren~` played a role very similar to Eve Kendall in `~10435~`'s Sir `~535~`-inspired thriller "@%Arabesque (1966)%@" opposite `~11074~`, "MGM"'s original choice for the role of Roger Thornhill. Among the problems that the Production Code found with this movie was the effeminacy of the henchman Leonard (`~8504~`). Landau had taken it upon himself to play his character as a closeted homosexual who is in love with the `~10593~` character. For the cropdusting scene, `~1266~` was filmed on a studio set diving into a fake ditch while the plane footage unspooled on a screen behind him. A panel of fashion experts convened by GQ Magazine in 2006 said the gray suit worn by `~1266~` throughout almost the entire movie was the best suit in movie history, and the most influential on men's style, stating that it has since been copied for `~1572~`'s character in @%Collateral (2004)%@ and `~1511~`'s character in !~paycheck~!~Paycheck (2003)~!. This sentiment has been echoed by Writer `~Todd McEwen~`, who called it "gorgeous", and wrote a short story "`~1266~`'s Suit", which recounted this movie's plot from the viewpoint of the suit. Sir `~535~` planned to shoot a scene in the Ford automobile plant in Dearborn, Michigan. As Thornhill and a factory worker discussed a particular foreman at the plant, they would walk along the assembly line as a car was put together from the first bolt to the final panel. Then, as the car rolled off the line ready to drive, Thornhill would open the passenger door and out would roll the body of the foreman he had just been discussing. Hitchcock loved the idea of a body appearing out of nowhere, but he and Screenwriter `~10537~` couldn't figure out a way to make the scene fit the story, so it never came to fruition. A similar scene is seen in !~minority_rep~!~Minority Report (2002)~!. In `~13694~`'s book-length interview, @%Hitchcock/Truffaut (1967)%@, Sir `~535~` said that MGM wanted this movie cut by fifteen minutes so its length would run under two hours. Hitchcock had his agent check his contract, learned that he had absolute control over the final cut, and refused. It was journalist `~Otis L. Guernsey, Jr.~` who suggested to Sir `~535~` the premise of a man mistaken for a nonexistent secret agent. He was inspired, he said, by a real-life case during World War II, known as Operation Mincemeat, in which British intelligence hoped to lure Italian and German forces away from Sicily, a planned invasion site. A cadaver was selected and given an identity and phony papers referring to invasions of Sardinia and Greece. @%The Man Who Never Was (1956)%@ recounted the operation. The day before the scene where Thornhill is hidden in an upper berth was to be filmed, `~1266~` took a look at the set which had been built and told Sir `~535~` that it had been constructed sloppily and would not do for the movie. Hitchcock trusted Grant's judgment so completely, that he ordered the set rebuilt to better standards without ever checking the situation for himself. Thornhill appears on the left side of the screen for almost the entire movie. `~1266~` found the screenplay baffling, and midway through filming told Sir `~535~`, "It's a terrible script. We've already done a third of the picture and I still can't make head nor tail of it!" Hitchcock knew this confusion would only help the movie after all, Grant's character had no idea what was going on, either. Grant thought the movie would be a flop right up until its premiere, where it was rapturously received. Less than eight feet of film was cut from the final release. Eight feet is about five seconds, or one hundred twenty frames. Sir `~535~` filmed `~1266~`'s entrance into the United Nations building from across the street with a hidden camera. When he gets to the top of the stairs, a man about to walk down does a double take upon seeing the movie star. Rather than go to the expense of shooting in a South Dakota woodland, Sir `~535~` planted one hundred ponderosa pines on an MGM soundstage. While on location at Mt. Rushmore, `~11602~` discovered that `~1266~` would charge fans fifteen cents for an autograph. This movie has been referred to as "the first ^~bond_no~^~James Bond~^ film" due to its similarities with splashily colourful settings, secret agents, and an elegant, daring, wisecracking leading man opposite a sinister yet strangely charming villain. The crop duster scene inspired the helicopter chase in "!~bond_russia~!~From Russia with Love (1963)~!." While filming "@%Vertigo (1958)%@," Sir `~535~` described some of the plot of this project to frequent Hitchcock leading man and "Vertigo" star `~1299~`, who naturally assumed that Hitchcock meant to cast him in the Roger Thornhill role, and was eager to play it. Actually, Hitchcock wanted `~1266~` to play the role. By the time Hitchcock realized the misunderstanding, Stewart was so anxious to play Thornhill that rejecting him would have caused a great deal of disappointment. So Hitchcock delayed production on this movie until Stewart was already safely committed to filming `~6645~`'s "@%Anatomy of a Murder (1959)%@" before "officially" offering him the role in this movie. Stewart had no choice. He had to turn down the offer, allowing Hitchcock to cast Grant, the actor he had wanted all along. SPOILER:The crop scene is homaged in !~xfiles_future~!~The X Files (1998)~!, when Mulder and Scully are pursued by helicopters in another crop field. `~8504~` appears in both films.:SPOILER Included among the "@#1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die#@", edited by `~Steven Schneider~`. Included among the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the Top 100 Greatest American Movies. In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #55 Greatest Movie of All Time. Ranked #7 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Mystery" in June 2008.
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