Top 50 Movies: #29
Thursday, January 31st, 2008#29 North by Northwest (1959)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau
Movie trailer:
The father of the modern thrillers, and still among the best. Written by Ernest Lehman. Movie soundtrack composed by Bernard Herrmann.
Movie quotes:
Eve Kendall: I tipped the steward five dollars to seat you here if you should come in.
Roger Thornhill: Is that a proposition?
Eve Kendall: I never discuss love on an empty stomach.
Roger Thornhill: You’ve already eaten!
Eve Kendall: But you haven’t.
Roger Thornhill: Now you listen to me, I’m an advertising man, not a red herring. I’ve got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don’t intend to disappoint them all by getting myself “slightly” killed.
Eve Kendall: It’s going to be a long night.
Roger Thornhill: True.
Eve Kendall: And I don’t particularly like the book I’ve started.
Roger Thornhill: Ah.
Eve Kendall: You know what I mean?
Roger Thornhill: Ah, let me think. Yes, I know exactly what you mean.
Roger Thornhill: I don’t like the games you play, professor.
The Professor: War is hell, Mr. Thornhill, even when it’s a cold one.
Phillip Vandamm: That wasn’t very sporting, using real bullets.

