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North By Northwest
pg-13
Adventure
Mystery
Thriller
Release Date
September 8, 1959
Runtime
136 minutes
Director
Alfred Hitchcock

Cast

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    Eva Marie Saint
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    James Mason

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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.

Writers
Ernest Lehman
Writers
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