north by northwest 1959 is arguably alfred hitchcocks best work exclding psycho in the box office i grossed at $13,275,000.
Key action scenes in North by Northwest
the mansion scene- The victim roger thornhill (carey grant) and the villian phillip vandamm (james mason) are at a mansion that the villians are hiding out at a man called mr townsend's mansion. The villian thinks that the hero is a undercover spy trying to take down the villians. the hero is unaware of this and is utterly confused at the villians proposal to make a deal with him. due to roger thornhill denying he is the spy (george kaplin) phillip vandamm gets angry. he then trys to kill roger thornhill by forcing him to drink a whole bottl of borbourne in one go and then put him in a car and get him to drive it down the coast hoping he would full off. but to phillip vandamm,s henchmen's surprise roger thornhill had just enough concioussness to avoid the cliff and get aay rom the henchmen but then get caught by the police. attempting to murder someone is very typical of a thriller and that is what is done in this scene.
The united nations scene- roger thornhill tracks down the man under the name of mr townsnd while he is trying to find out who the spy mr kaplin is he goes to the hotel room of mr kaplam and finds a picture of the man who tried to kill him. the picture showed the man standing in the united nation with a load of other colleuges of he's. when roger thornhill arrives at the united nations he is unaware he was being pusued the whole way there. when roger thornhill gets inside he asks at the front desk about mr townsend the secratary confirms he works there and sends roger thornill up to him. when roger thornhill arrives mr townsend comes out to greet him and to rogerthornhills surprise it was not the man he was looking for. roger thornhill the questions mr townsend about hes home and finds out that mr townsend was never home. the henchman the throws a knife into the back of mr townsend due to roger thornhill being there he gets caught in the act
