60th Anniversary of Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest

Having a special viewing tonight...even printed up tickets!(Junjie's castle is my house!)

A great movie, which included scenes filmed at the LaSalle Street Station and Midway Airport of my youth. It had a uniformly excellent cast, topped out by Eva Marie Saint at her best. The scenes of the Century were cool, and I still love the lightning stripe livery on the E-unit #4044. All in all, a Hitchcock classic.

For me it is one of Hitchcock's top five films . The scene at Mount Rushmore is a nailbiter still .  I have a small re-creation of the Stearman trying to gun down Cary Grant in the cornfield on my layout .

One of the passenger cars is named, but right now I don't have it in my mind...is the car still preserved?? Glad to learn scenes were taken at the LaSalle Street Station

Hitchcock made at least two other early English films that featured trains. The Lady Vanishes' action takes palace almost entirely on a train with spies and a shoot out.

Secret Agent ends up on a train as the enemy spy played by of all people Robert Young is trying to return home wtih the information. The train is filled with troops, machine guns on the roofs as the good guys need to bomb the train to prevent him from getting through. John Gielgud and Madeleine Carroll round out the cast as the "good guys". As in many of the early Hitchcock's the ending is not terribly upbeat. (In Sabotage he actually ends by blowing up both the cute little dog and the boy.)

Jeff B. Haertlein posted:

One of the passenger cars is named, but right now I don't have it in my mind...is the car still preserved?? Glad to learn scenes were taken at the LaSalle Street Station

Imperial State

Re: Hitchcock. Let's not forget "Strangers on a Train."

johnstrains posted:

Re: Hitchcock. Let's not forget "Strangers on a Train."

Criss-cross!

Northwest Orient Airlines... now there's a name nobody today will even utter....

i can still hear the jingle in my head.

The other touch in the movie is the famous red carpet on the platform complete with the Twentieth Century lettering.

20th Century Limited - 👍

Eva Marie Saint - 👍👍👍

After all; life IS about more than just trains.  😁

Curt

I think North by Northwest was Hitchcock's best movie. All and all top actors, plot and music. Who can forget the corn field and biplane shots. The Mount Rushmore scenes. The music played a huge role. One of the best, Bernard Hermann. I have the movie in Bluray, we are going to watch yet another time tonight, If you see it again watch for the cafeteria background shots. Just before Cary Grant gets shot a little boy who has most likely done the scene many time at this point, puts his fingers in his ears before the shot is fired. Don

JamesRx posted:

Jeff B. Haertlein posted:

One of the passenger cars is named, but right now I don't have it in my mind...is the car still preserved?? Glad to learn scenes were taken at the LaSalle Street Station

Imperial State

Oh yes, the Imperial State...I wonder if it is still around.

overlandflyer posted:

Northwest Orient Airlines... now there's a name nobody today will even utter....

i can still hear the jingle in my head.

Me too......Northwest Orient....(bong)....airlines!

scale rail posted:

I think North by Northwest was Hitchcock's best movie. All and all top actors, plot and music. Who can forget the corn field and biplane shots. The Mount Rushmore scenes. The music played a huge role. One of the best, Bernard Hermann. I have the movie in Bluray, we are going to watch yet another time tonight, If you see it again watch for the cafeteria background shots. Just before Cary Grant gets shot a little boy who has most likely done the scene many time at this point, puts his fingers in his ears before the shot is fired. Don

Yes I too like the music...and have the CD

I never caught the little boy until the DVD mentioned it in the other features about the movie section

Jeff B. Haertlein posted:

JamesRx posted:

Jeff B. Haertlein posted:

One of the passenger cars is named, but right now I don't have it in my mind...is the car still preserved?? Glad to learn scenes were taken at the LaSalle Street Station

Imperial State

Oh yes, the Imperial State...I wonder if it is still around.

Sold to IC in '68. Scrapped in '70.😭

One of my favorite all-time movies. Grant and Saint are beautiful together. I cannot think of another movie that matches their chemistry. Drama, adventure, comedy, I love it. I like your recreation scene, James.

Paul Kallus posted:

One of my favorite all-time movies. Grant and Saint are beautiful together. I cannot think of another movie that matches their chemistry. Drama, adventure, comedy, I love it. I like your recreation scene, James.

Thanks Paul!

I think some of the car scenes were actually part of a Hollywood set- obviously other scenes were real.

The fabulous Bernard Hermann score was mentioned but I've also always loved the opening credits.

Great line in the movie. Only three words but cracks me up every time. Imagine James Mason's very urbane accent when he says to Cary Grant,  "Games? Must we?"

Been watching a lot of Hitchcock Presents reruns lately.  A lot of them I didn't really "get" as a kid and are quite amazing even today.

Farmer Bill, did you know the Hitchcock Presents film crew filmed "Psycho"? The studio didn't like the story and didn't think you could film it. Hitch spent his own money and used his TV crew to save money. Also he didn't think you could show the shower scene in color so they shot it in B&W. Total cost was one million. Don

Scotie, here you go. You can thank Saul Bass for credit design. I love the open also. The only time Leo the M-G-M lion was in green. Don

Hermann also did the ghost and mrs muir, another great old movie.

My 60th anniversary viewing party was a big success! Thanks to everyone for all their enlightening comments on the film.

One of my favorite movies. The 20th Century makes a fantastic setting. I also love the house on top of Mt. Rushmore.

When I first saw the film, at 10 years of age, I did not understand the allegorical significance of the final scene. That understanding came some time later. 

https://youtu.be/DPt-4Nwght0

I guess imitation is flattery here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSuRmmryeYY

North by Northwest is on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) tonight at 8pm.