Plot: Madison Avenue advertising man Roger Thornhill finds himself thrust into the world of spies when he is mistaken for a man by the name of George Kaplan. Foreign spy Philip Vandamm and his henchman Leonard try to eliminate him but when Thornhill tries to make sense of the case, he is framed for murder. Now on the run from the police, he manages to board the 20th Century Limited bound for Chicago where he meets a beautiful blond, Eve Kendall, who helps him to evade the authorities. His world is turned upside down yet again when he learns that Eve isn't the innocent bystander he thought she was. Not all is as it seems however, leading to a dramatic rescue and escape at the top of Mt. Rushmore.
Runtime: 136 mins
Release Date: 16 Sep 1959
Starcast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Josephine Hutchinson, Philip Ober, Martin Landau, Adam Williams, Edward Platt, Robert Ellenstein, Les Tremayne, Philip Coolidge, Patrick McVey, Edward Binns, Ken Lynch, Stanley Adams, Andy Albin, Anne Anderson, Ernest Anderson, Malcolm Atterbury, Tol Avery, Baynes Barron, John Beradino, Stephen Bolster, Taggart Casey, Bill Catching, Bob Coe, Walter Coy, Jimmy Cross, Lucille Curtis, Patricia Cutts, Jack Daly, John Damler, Lawrence Dobkin, John Eldredge, Tommy Farrell, Jesslyn Fax, Adolph Faylauer, Josephine Forsberg, Sally Fraser, Paul Genge, Ned Glass, Tom Greenway, Len Hendry, Alfred Hitchcock, Eugene Jackson, Bobby Johnson, Sid Kane, Kenner G. Kemp, Madge Kennedy, Doreen Lang, Larry Leverett, Alexander Lockwood, Frank Marlowe, Nora Marlowe, Tom Marshall, James McCallion, Maura McGiveney, Carl Milletaire, Howard Negley, Charles Postal, Maudie Prickett, Hugh Pryor, Ralph Reed, Jeffrey Sayre, Harry Seymour, Robert Shayne, Doris Singh, Jeremy Slate, Olan Soule, Helen Spring, Harvey Stephens, Bert Stevens, Harry Strang, Dale Van Sickel, Ray Weaver, Susan Whitney, Frank Wilcox, Lloyd Williams, Robert Williams, Paula Winslowe, Wilson Wood, Carleton Young,
Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, ,
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053125/
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IMDb Rating: 8.3/10 (269878 votes)
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