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Mistaken by a couple of hired thugs for an international spy and innocent in the murder of a diplomat, Cary Grant (armed only with undeniable charms and seductive shape) flees across the most audacious places of the United States, pursued by appropriately menacing villains (led by suave cold-hearted head James Mason and his henchman young Martin Landau) and shadowed by government agents... Somewhere in between is the sophisticated, glamorous and mysterious femme fatale Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint), whose unpredictable devotions tremble between the extremes of good and evil...
Will Grant slip away from his would-be killers? Does he clear his name after falsely being accused?
Directed by a genius behind the camera and a "master of suspense," and featuring intrigue, comedy, romance, and danger--the crime at the U.N., the lethal crop duster attack in the middle of nowhere, Grant's unusually good exhibition at a Chicago auction, the sequence at an automobile plant, and the impressive climactic hunt across the Presidential faces carved into Mount Rushmore--Hitchcock celebrated his golden effort with his fourth and final masterpiece after 1954's Rear Window, 1958's Vertigo, and 1960's Psycho.
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Easily the best Hitchcock or Cary Grant movie ever made--filled with suspense and comedy throughout. It works as well today as it did almost 50 years ago and doesn't seem dated. This movie can be watched over and over again with great pleasure. By now you know the classic cropduster scenes and Mt. Rushmore scene, but there are other great parts of the film as well. Other than it maybe being a bit long during the love scenes, this movie is picture perfect.
It's one of my top five movies of all time.
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I've avoided this movie for years. I don't really know why, but what a mistake! The storyline may seem tired by today's standards because we've all seen it before. However, the acting, the lines, and the photography are outstanding... especially the photography!! There were some scenes such as as when Grant and the traveler are waiting on the bus to arrive that are just breathtaking.
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Cary Grant has to be the quintessential Hitchcock male (if Grace Kelly is his blonde)! So suave and charismatic, he is just splendid as the playboy who is mistaken for a government agent. This mistaken identity (a favorite plot point for Hitch) leads Cary Grant on a cross country journey that culminates in one of the most unforgettable cinematic scenes at Mt. Rushmore.
Eva Marie Saint is splendid as the double agent helping and bumbling Grant along the way.
This is a truly great film: filled with comedy and mayhem, as well as murder and political intrigue. Anyone could fall in love with this movie.
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I'm not sure about why the more recent reviewers are having so much trouble with their dvds and I can only assume that the recent batch out of the factory has got major product quality issues as my copy works just fine albeit I bought mine at least a couple of years ago. The Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround sound quality as well as the picture quality of my dvd is excellent too.
People have to recognise that most of Hitch's films combine elements of humour together with suspense and thrills and what makes this film great is the nice balance of these that's apparent. The witty dialogue and snappy one-liner jokes delivered by the brilliant Cary Grant still hold up well today. The Kafka-esque storyline is meant to be so outrageous as to be funny and if taken in that spirit many of the scenes are very entertaining indeed. The ludicrousness of trying to kill "George Kaplan" by filling him with alcohol and then helping him drive off a mountain's edge, being chased by a crop-duster in the middle of nowhere, etc make fans of Kafka's works like "The Trial" and "Metamorphosis" who can appreciate the genre truly appreciate and enjoy this film masterpiece.
Granted some of the scenes do not make much logical sense such as when Eve Kendell talks to Martin Landau's character from a phone booth while he is doing so from another phone in the same line of booths and the strange way the crop duster slams into the oil tanker but that's just the point with Kafka-esques situations in that they are supposed to be ridiculous. Despite these screenplay "shortcomings" the acting is very good and I liked the camera angles very much for an overall very good film. Great combination of humour, thrills and spills, tension and drama makes this a classic film for the ages.
Highly recommended!
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