North by Northwest (1959)






A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.


Film programs

Illustrierte Film Bühne nr. 5113

Books on North by Northwest

James Naremore
North by northwest, Alfred Hitchcock, director
New Brunswick, 1993

Books with substantial mentioning of North by Northwest

Mark William Padilla
Classical myth in Alfred Hitchcock's Wrong man and Grace Kelly films
Lanham, Maryland, 2019

David Greven
Intimate violence, Hitchcock, sex, and queer theory
Oxford, 2017

David Thomson
Moments that made the movies
London, 2014

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Robert J. Yanal
Hitchcock as philosopher
Jefferson, N.C., 2005

Christopher D. Morris
The Hanging Figure, On Suspence and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Westport, Connecticut - London, 2002

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Neil Sinyard
Classic Movies
London, 1993

James Naremore
Acting in the Cinema
Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1988

Donald Deschner
The Films of Cary Grant
Secaucus, NJ, 1979

Robert A. Harris & Michael S. Lasky
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Secaucus, NJ, 1979

Donald Spoto
The Art of Alfred Hitchcock, Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures
New York, 1976

Clive Hirschhorn
The Films of James Mason
London, 1975

Robin Wood
Hitchcock's Films
New York, 1969

Books with an entry on North by Northwest

Larry Langman & David Ebner
Encyclopedia of American Spy Films
New York & London, 1990

Articles on North by Northwest

Steven Rawle, How could you possibly be a Hitchcocko-Herrmannian?: Digitally re-narrativising collaborative authorship, in: Steven Rawle and K.J. Donnelly (eds.), Partners in suspense, Manchester, 2017

Adam Smith, North by Northwest, in: Empire, nr. 254 (August), 2010 pp. 127-129

Articles with substantial mentioning of North by Northwest

Richard H. Millington, Hitchcock and American Character. The Comedy of Self-Construction in North by Northwest, in: Jonathan Freedman and Richard Millington (eds.), Hitchcock's America, New York; Oxford, 1999