Review of North by Northwest (1959) by Michael H — 07 Jun 2014

A light, breezy, occasionally suspenseful, romantic-thriller-comedy. There's not a lot of depth to it (except in the rather subversive way Hitchcock reveals that there are no heroes on any side in the espionage game), but it caroms easily from brilliant, oft copied set-piece to brilliant, oft copied set-piece and is set a-boil by some of the most provocative of innuendo delivered with a full head of seductive steam by Eva Marie Saint.