North by Northwest 1959

Directed by	Alfred Hitchcock
Written by	Ernest Lehman
Produced by	Alfred Hitchcock
Starring	Cary Grant Eva Marie Saint James Mason Jessie Royce Landis
Cinematography	Robert Burks
Edited by	George Tomasini
Music by	Bernard Herrmann
Production company	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	1 July 1959 (Chicago)
Running time	136 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$4.3 million
Box office	$9.8 million
(This information is from wikipedia.org.)

North by Northwest

• Accidental importance
• Crop dusting

Accidental importance

Mistaken identity leads to danger and the undoing of a spy ring. It’s more common in fiction that a character is not being paranoid because they really are after him.

Crop dusting

It’s big and threatening, and you have nowhere to hide, a nightmare from which you can’t wake up. Throw yourself in the dirt and hide between the rows of corn. The cornstalks rustling sound like death.