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North By Northwest [Blu-ray] [1959] [Region Free]

Cary Grant (Actor), Eva Marie Saint (Actor), Alfred Hitchcock (Director, Producer) Rated: Parental Guidance Format: Blu-ray

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Genre	Drama, Mystery & Suspense/Thrillers
Format	PAL, Subtitled
Contributor	Philip Coolidge, Adam Williams, Martin Landau, Les Tremayne, Ken Lynch, Robert Ellenstein, Philip Ober, Ernest Lehman, Eva Marie Saint, Edward Platt, Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Burks, Cary Grant, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, James Mason, Josephine Hutchinson See more
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American classic comedy drama directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) finds himself in a case of mistaken identity, as members of a strange organisation believe he is a man by the name of George Kaplan due to a miscommunication. With no other option, he flees across the country, being pursued by enemies of the government who are convinced that he is a secret agent. He finds a friend in Eve Kendall (Eve Marie Saint) who helps to conceal him during a perilous train journey, but he soon discovers that she is not all she seems.

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 16:9 - 1.78:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 1 x 1 x 1 cm; 70 Grams
Audio Description: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish, Finnish
Manufacturer reference ‏ : ‎ 00000070000
Director ‏ : ‎ Alfred Hitchcock
Media Format ‏ : ‎ PAL, Subtitled
Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 16 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ 16 Nov. 2009
Actors ‏ : ‎ Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Leo G. Carroll, Martin Landau
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian
Language ‏ : ‎ Italian (Mono), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby TrueHD 5.1), Unqualified (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Spanish (Dolby Digital 1.0), English (Mono), French (Mono), German (Mono)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Warner Home Video
Producers ‏ : ‎ Alfred Hitchcock
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B002CYIR5W
Country of origin ‏ : ‎ Portugal
Writers ‏ : ‎ Ernest Lehman
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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We bought this film from amazon and we were not disappointed it was more entertaining than many of the so called new films they’re bringing out just now it put them all to shame so I recommend buying it you won’t be disappointed
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"...Expedient Exaggeration..." - North By Northwest on BLU RAY And Which Issue To Buy?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 17 November 2009

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*** THIS REVIEW IS FOR THE BLU RAY REISSUES ***

As you watch the credits of Hitch's 1959 masterpiece "North By Northwest" roll up on the screen in all their resplendent VistaVision Technicolor glory - the shiny, cold and aloof glass panelling of a New York skyscraper acts as their backdrop.

It's a brilliant touch - because combined with Bernard Herrmann's staccato score - it ratchets up the tension - and also subliminally suggests to the viewer that some poor John Doe is about to get rightly and royally screwed by big business and big Government - or both. And of course - mistaken for a UN diplomat called George Caplin - our hapless hero George Thornhill (played by Cary Grant) - does just that. Then when the opening credits end and Cary exits the lift with his secretary (Doreen Lang) all suited-n-booted and looking dapper enough to lick - another element kicks in - the extraordinary picture quality...

State-of-the art frame-by-frame Lowry Digital restoration has taken place here and the result is that the print is just BEAUTIFUL. I raved in a UK Listmania list some 3 years ago about how good the DVD looked - well this BLU RAY is way better - and at times just jaw-dropping to look at. Icing on the cake is that this 50th Anniversary BLU RAY reissue (Nov 2009) also adds on some superlative new features which are just as good as the film itself.

Here's the full list:
1. Commentary by Ernest Lehman (Original Script-Writer)
2. New 2009 Documentary "The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style"
(over 50 minutes - featuring comments from directors Martin Scorsese, Curtis Hanson, Frances Lawrence, Guillermo del Toro and many more)
3. Previously seen but superlative feature-length profile "Cary Grant: A Class Apart" (over 1 and a half hours)
4. New 2009 feature called "North By Northwest: One For The Ages" examining the movies innovations and influences
5. Feature called "The Making Of North By Northwest" from 2000 hosted by Eva Marie Saint
6. Music Only Audio Track
7. Stills Gallery
8. Theatrical Trailers & TV Spots
9. Internet link to Warner Brothers

A whole bunch of things combine to make NBN work - a great story by Ernest Lehman, superb night and day locations, immaculate period clothes, the bulbous gas-guzzling cars, the art-deco buildings, the interiors of wealthy homes and the deeply luxurious dining cars of long-distance 1950's trains. And to top all of that, you get genuine old-school Hollywood star power in the form of James Mason, Martin Landau, Leo Carroll and the luminous love interest Eva Marie Saint. And of course the effortlessly suave and charming Cary Grant - arguably the best leading man Tinseltown ever produced. Throw in the tension, wit and camera angles of Hitchcock at the helm - and you're on a winner.

But your eyes keep coming back to how this BLU RAY shines. There are so many little scenes that now look sumptuous - Alfred missing the bus just at the end of the opening credits in his famous cameo scene - the garish colours of Fifties New York taxis, the marble of the hotel lobby Cary is meeting clients in. Then there's the Townsend home and gardens as the villains motor up the gravel driveway to the front door, the three dapper suits of the boys as they parry in the library room inside (Mason, Landau and Grant) and the clarity of the night scene where they put a drunk Cary in a stolen car and try to drive him off a cliff. Further on there's the colour of the fields in the legendary crop-duster scene, hanging off the Mount Rushmore monument by your fingernails - even Eva Saint Marie's beautiful red dress in the hotel room as she stands by the door while Cary showers in the bathroom... I could go on. If I was to nitpick - some scenes quite deliberately have Grant and Saint with an almost halo-like shine around them (soft focus to make them look better) and can at times make the print look just a teeny bit soft. But other than that - this is exemplary stuff and a jewel in Warners Brothers considerable filmic Crown.

Up there with "The Italian Job", "Zulu", "Goldfinger", "Saturday Night, Sunday Morning", "The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner", "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", "The African Queen", "To Catch A Thief" and "Back To The Future" in terms of top quality restoration (see my reviews for each) - "North By Northwest" is a triumph on BLU RAY. And the superb additional extras only make you feel that Warners are to be praised for a job well done.

As to which release to buy on BLU RAY - (as of April 2014) there are a number of releases for UK fans:

1. The Standard UK release of 2009 (50th Anniversary Edition cover) is in a simple clipcase with no booklet (Amazon Reference B002CYIR5W)
2. The UK 2013 Steelbook Reissue Version uses the old Poster artwork on the front and has no booklet either (Amazon UK reference B00A6UH9PS)
3. The American DIGIBOOK release of 2009 (50th Anniversary Edition cover) on Warner Brothers however has a Hardback Sleeve and a beautiful 46-page booklet attached inside. It's also Region Free so will play on all machines. If you've the few quid - opt for this - it often retails for around a ten spot and is gorgeous to look at and own (Amazon UK reference B0017HMF6W).

PS: For anyone interested (as I said above) - the American NBN is part of the following list of American DIGIBOOK BLU RAY titles on Warner Brothers. Most are REGION FREE and each has a beautiful booklet - which few if any of the UK versions have:

All The President's Men (1976)
Amadeus (1984)
Batman (1989)
The Big Parade (1925)
Blade Runner (1982)
Bonnie And Clyde (1967)1975)
Cabaret (1972)
Camelot (1967)
Casablanca (1942)
Chariots Of Fire (1981)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Clash Of The Titans (1981)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Color Purple (1985)
Deliverance (1972)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Doctor Zhizago (1965)
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
East Of Eden (1953)
Elvis On Tour (1972)
Empire Of The Sun (1987)
The Exorcist (1973)
Falling Down (1993)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Gettysburg (1993)
Giant (1956)
Goodfellows (1990)
Gods And Generals (2003)
The Green Mile (1999)
Guys And Dolls (1955)
Hamlet [Kenneth Branagh Version] (1996)
Hans Christian Andersen (1952)
How The West Was Won (1962
Jaws (1975)
The Jazz Singer (1927)
JFK (1991)
The Killing Fields (1984)
King Kong (1933 Original)
Malcolm X (1992)
The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
The Matrix (1999)
Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
Midnight Express (1978)
Mutiny On The Bounty (1935)
Natural Born Killers (1994)
North By Nothwest (1959)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Papillon (1973) - SEE REVIEW
Poltergeist (1982)
Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
The Right Stuff (1983)
Rocky (1976)
Se7en (1995)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Silverado (1985)
The Sorcerer (1977)
A Star Is Born (1954 Original)
A Star Is Born (1976 Remake)
A Streetcare Named Desire (1951)
300 (2007)
The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)
Unforgiven (1992)
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962)
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1971)

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An outstanding late-period Hitchcock offering Cary Grant his best ever role.

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First, let me confess a little anti-North By Northwest prejudice as I settled down to watch this 1959 classic. My memory was that it had great comic moments, and some real suspense (the latter presented as much for laughs as for gasps)... but that it was a bit too much of a big-studio production to be a “real” Hitchcock on the lines of Strangers on a Train (1951) or the ultra-low budget Psycho (1960), which immediately followed it.

Indeed there is strong evidence that the very experience of working on NNW’s then-stellar budget of $3.5 million (about $100 million in today's terms), prompted Hitchcock to make Psycho, with minimal crew, on his own dime. This, he thought, would be a way of getting back to the old days, in the tiny English film studios where his career began in the 1920s. He would work directly with a dedicated crew, and have control over production values, art direction, and so on. Furthermore, the quirky shots and gritty noir feel of the best 1940s and 50s work would once again come into their own.

My memory — false, as it turned out — was that NNW was too glamorous, colourful and expensive to allow for any of these noir moments, or any of those hints of the perverse and twisted that is visible in so many Hitch works, even from the very beginning (The Lodger, 1927; Blackmail, 1929); becoming a trademark of mid to late career: Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and The Wrong Man (1957).

Well, there are certain no shabby rooming houses, dodgy motels or dirty back streets. But that, in part, is the point: in the classic crop-dusting sequence, Hitchcock invented an entirely new cinematic idea: sundrenched noir.

That notion — that menace and evil did not need the concealment of dark alleyways — is both literally and metaphorically true in NNW. Every act of wickedness, every hint of evil, takes place amongst people, and in settings, that could decorously feature in the society pages of a respectable newspaper.

Villains like Phillip Vandamm (James Mason) and his sidekick Leonard (Martin “Marty” Landau) are soft-spoken, well-dressed and impeccably polite as they gracefully go about the business of murder and mayhem; they do so in settings ranging from elegant country piles to Frank Lloyd Wright masterpieces. This is homicide in the best possible taste.

The film looks good, and what I mis-remembered as lavishness turns out to be Robert Boyle’s elegance, always with a hint of the decadent; and Robert Burks’ stunning cinematography. (VistaVision, a relatively new format, was perfect for the many outdoor locations).

Bernard Herrmann provides the score: his percussive opening is much celebrated, but undeservedly neglected are his contrasting love themes, best heard in the forest scene near the end.

Saul Bass, as witty as ever in his opening titles, adds icing to this wonderful film: in Hitchcock’s own words, not a slice of life but a slice of cake.

Buy it, watch it. You’re in for a treat.

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