North By Northwest - "Le Mort Aux Trousses"

Year: 1959

Size/Type: Belgian One Panel / single sided / (14" x 22")

Country of Origin: Belgium

Condition: Very Fine plus - Near Mint minus; originally rolled

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Actor/Actress: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau.

Comments: "It's a deadly game of "tag" and Cary Grant is it !"...This film is so popular because it is so good. Not great, but very, very good, in a way that anticipates a lot of the direction of mass entertainment to come and thus speaks to people in a way `Vertigo' or `Strangers On A Train' do not. People talk about how forward thinking "Psycho" is, and it is, but more directors took note of the just-as-clever-but-more-mainstream approach of "North By Northwest." The last four decade have been chock full of flicks serving up suspense, sex, changing locales, and plot twists that play with viewers' expectations, all the while keeping the laughs coming. It's not like "North By Northwest" invented this formula, but it perfected and distilled it into an essence that is imitated, with varying success, to this day.