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North

The book North was made into the movie North.

Which one did you like better, the book or the movie?  There are 6 votes for the book, and 5 votes for the movie.

Book details for North

North was written by Alan Zweibel. The book was published in 1984 by Villard Books. More information on the book is available on Amazon.com.

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Movie details for North

The movie was released in 1994. North was produced by Warner Home Video. More information on the movie is available on Amazon.com and also IMDb.

Actors on this movie include Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, Ed Binns, Leo G. Carroll, Bill Catching, Philip Coolidge, Lawrence Dobkin, Robert Ellenstein, Josephine Hutchinson, Martin Landau, Jessie Royce Landis, Ken Lynch, James Mason, Patrick McVey, Philip Ober, Edward Platt, Les Tremayne, Adam Williams and Robert Williams.

 

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A strong candidate for the most sheerly entertaining and enjoyable movie ever made by a Hollywood studio (with Citizen Kane, Only Angels Have Wings and Trouble in Paradise running neck and neck). Positioned between the much heavier and more profoundly dis... Read More
A strong candidate for the most sheerly entertaining and enjoyable movie ever made by a Hollywood studio (with Citizen Kane, Only Angels Have Wings and Trouble in Paradise running neck and neck). Positioned between the much heavier and more profoundly disturbing Vertigo (1958) and the stark horror of Psycho (1960), North by Northwest (1959) is Alfred Hitchcock at his most effervescent in a romantic comedy-thriller that also features one of the definitive Cary Grant performances. Which is not to say that this is just "Hitchcock Lite"; seminal Hitchcock critic Robin Wood (in his book Hitchcock's Films Revisited) makes an airtight case for this glossy MGM production as one of The Master's "unbroken series of masterpieces from Vertigo to Marnie." It's a classic Hitchcock Wrong Man scenario: Grant is Roger O. Thornhill (initials ROT), an advertising executive who is mistaken by enemy spies for a U.S. undercover agent named George Kaplan. Convinced these sinister fellows (James Mason as the boss, and Martin Landau as his henchman) are trying to kill him, Roger flees and meets a sexy Stranger on a Train (Eva Marie Saint), with whom he engages in one of the longest, most convolutedly choreographed kisses in screen history. And, of course, there are the famous set pieces: the stabbing at the United Nations, the crop-duster plane attack in the cornfield (where a pedestrian has no place to hide), and the cliffhanger finale atop the stone faces of Mount Rushmore. Plus a sparkling Ernest Lehman script and that pulse-quickening Bernard Herrmann score. What more could a moviegoer possibly desire? --Jim Emerson