North by Northwest

North by Northwest is one of Alfred Hitchcocks most famous film, made in 1959. It stars, Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill, Eva Marie Saint as Eve Kendall, James Mason as Phillip Vandamm,  Leo G. Carroll as The Professor and Jessie Royce Landis as Clara Thornhill. North by Northwest is about an innocents man identity being mistaken. Roger Thornhill is mistaken for George Kaplan as he is chased across america by agents who want to stop his interference in their plans to smuggle out microfilm containing government secrets. The the duration of the film we meet many characters and different relationships develop. Hitchcock uses a variety of skills in this film including a McGuffin and cliff hangers, literally, where at the end of the film we see Eve Kandall  (Eva Marie Saint) literally hanging off of the edge of mount rushmore.

Another famous scene from North by northwest is the cropduster scene, when Roger Thornhill is tricked into going to an isolated crossroads, with flat countryside all around and nobody in sight. A man finally arrives, but then takes the next bus. Before he leaves, the puzzled stranger observes that a biplane is "dusting crops where there ain't no crops." The plane soon flies towards Thornhill, and the pilot starts shooting at him. He flees to the cover of a cornfield, but the plane dusts it with pesticide, forcing him out. Desperate, Thornhill steps in front of a speeding gasoline tank truck, which stops barely in time. The plane crashes into it and explodes. When passing drivers stop to see what is going on, Thornhill steals a pickup truck and drives away.