Reacting to NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959) | Movie Reaction
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Күн бұрынThank you for joining me as I react to North by Northwest for the first time. I hope you enjoy the video and my reaction!
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Reacting to NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959) | Movie Reaction
@torreyholmes7205 6 ай бұрын
The train entering the tunnel at the end, as Mr and Mrs Thornhill settle into their sleeping quarters is a classic moment.
@williamkerner3758 6 ай бұрын
Super Freudian. :D
@Nangleator22 6 ай бұрын
She has a nice railway tunnel, I'm sure. AND she keeps the shrubbery trimmed away. Nice.
@JPSE57 6 ай бұрын
Gotta love Hollywood's ways of working around the Breen office!
@michaeldavid6284 6 ай бұрын
@@JPSE57 Actually HItchcock's way. He planned that little bit of naughtiness.
@ignatzmuskrat3000 6 ай бұрын
Yah. And dead people don't have sex. So, they survived to make more thornhills.
@TheCkent100 6 ай бұрын
Dawn, you missed the set-up. That is the reason you were confused. In the very beginning, in the restaurant, Roger Thornhill said to the gentlemen that he was meeting with that he wanted to send a telegram, so he called for the restaurant employee. That restaurant employee was paging George Caplan. The men that abducted Roger saw his call for the restaurant employee while the employee was calling for Caplan, so assumed Roger was answering the page - meaning that Roger was Caplan. It was a mistaken identity situation. You really need to pay close attention to what is going on at the beginning of a Hitchcock film. He often does the set-up for the movie in the first few minutes and quite often it is very quick.
@jasoncook7227 6 ай бұрын
I've always thought Hitchcock underplayed that moment a tiny bit too much. Most viewers seem to miss it on the first viewing.
@stupidsmart-phone6911 6 ай бұрын
Agreed, this is often missed. I bought a copy about 10 years ago just to analyze all the stuff I missed over the years. It also highlights those goons are bumbling idiots, they nabbed someone with nothing to go on. I guess we could wonder if they were getting desperate. Perhaps Van Damm threatened them to get the spy. Even more interesting, some agent(s) had to set up all those hotels, how they didn't get caught I don't know. I hope Dawn rewatches this on her own. The point of first time watchings is to engage with us, the audience, but she loved it so much I'm sure she'll see it again soon. Some reacting channels poopoo a movie they don't understand because they missed a key point.
@THOMMGB 6 ай бұрын
You should rewatch the bar scene in the beginning as it will make a lot more sense. And you’ll love it even more.
@mmattson8947 6 ай бұрын
I missed the public announcement for Kaplan for more than the first viewing. A bit odd to be smacking my forehead about a movie I had seen several times, but finally caught why the misidentification happened.
@phila3884 6 ай бұрын
I have seen this movie dozens of times. Not to over-analyze, but I agree most reactors miss the set-up....but, the mistaken identity storyline is established again and again in the following scenes. The happy accident of it all is revealed later and almost impossible to figure out ahead of time, of course.
@ethelwulfmountbattenderoth2286 6 ай бұрын
If you like Eva Marie Saint, see, "On the Waterfront." She is literally a glowing light of goodness in a really ugly landscape.
@waterbeauty85 6 ай бұрын
Great suggestion! Dawn would definitely enjoy "On the Waterfront."
@Dontuween 6 ай бұрын
Eva turns 100 years young this July. She is the oldest Academy Award winner. God willing, she will see 100 this summer!
@drowner1 6 ай бұрын
And then read Simone De Beauvoir?
@TTM9691 6 ай бұрын
.....yup, Eva with young Marlon Brando.....a no-brainer, total essential classic!
@ethelwulfmountbattenderoth2286 6 ай бұрын
@@drowner1 In her American circumstance?
@creech54 6 ай бұрын
I'm glad you liked Bernard Herrmann's music! He scored 8 Hitchcock films in a row, including "Vertigo" and "Psycho".
@Sheffield_Steve 6 ай бұрын
Great music score for "Marnie" too.
@torbjornkvist 6 ай бұрын
NORTH BY NORTHWEST inspired the making of James Bond movies a lot. Alfred Hitchcock was asked to direct the first 007 but declined (he wanted to go independent). Cary Grant was on the shortlist for playing James Bond, but he only wanted to do one movie, and the James Bond people wanted a serial.
@drg3712 6 ай бұрын
There are many many elements of this film that rolled into the Bond films - agreed.
@brandonflorida1092 6 ай бұрын
Can you tell me a source on the Internet where I could find this information?
@ShinySilvery 6 ай бұрын
And this movie itself is a reworking of an earlier Hitchcock classic British movie ‘The 39 Steps’ quite significantly so.
@brandonflorida1092 6 ай бұрын
@@ShinySilvery If that was in Lehman's mind.
@TheCastlepoet 5 ай бұрын
The 39 Steps (1935) > Saboteur (1942) > North by Northwest (1959) are all essentially the same film. Hitchcock was fascinated by/ obsessed with the idea of an innocent everyman who, through no fault of his own, stumbles upon a deadly conspiracy and is wrongly accused of a crime he did not commit. The basic pattern of these films involves a cross-country chase as the protagonist attempts to unmask and foil the conspirators and prove his own innocence. He is aided by a (usually initially reluctant but ultimately sympathetic and ) female stranger, and undergoes a series of dangerous and suspenseful close calls along the way. Other Hitchcock trademarks include a finely honed script with moments of witty banter and sly double-entendres, and a cultured, urbane master villain.
@AlanCanon2222 6 ай бұрын
9:55 "Pay the two dollars". A reference to an old vaudeville routine about a guy cited for a trivial offense with a $2 fine, like littering, but his self-important attorney won't let it go, costing the poor guy more suffering at each turn. Like telling someone, "Just deal with it." Love the design and costuming of this picture, with New York City of 1959, so old, yet curiously modern. Love the trains and Grand Central Station. A reminder that you could get along without mobile phones back then, because there were public phones spaced a few hundred meters apart everywhere, and they worked just fine.
@drg3712 6 ай бұрын
Ahh! thanks for explaining that. I always thought when seeing this film... there's no way drunk driving only cost $2!!
@AlanCanon2222 6 ай бұрын
@@drg3712Yes, one imagines. I looked it up. The original routine appears in the movie Ziegfeld Follies of 1945, with Victor Moore and Edward Arnold. It was as familiar to audiences in 1959 as jokes like Monty Python's "Dead Parrot Sketch" are now.
@johnwest5837 5 ай бұрын
Always laugh about the fine, drunk driver hits a police car $2.00 ,s.
@johnwest5837 5 ай бұрын
@@drg3712 You got that right,I always laugh at the fine.
@chefskiss6179 6 ай бұрын
Fun fact: Mel Brooks made a tv show satirizing the 60's spies genre, called Get Smart. The lawyer in this movie (Edward Platt) would play the 'Chief' of the good-guy spies. You should look up an episode or two 😂
@TheKirkosable 6 ай бұрын
Don’t forget Mel Brooks’ High Anxiety movie once you’ve also watched The Birds and Psycho, parody of Hitchcock films altogether.
@RossM3838 6 ай бұрын
Martin landau would go on the star in another spy show called “mission impossible”
@MarkMcLT 6 ай бұрын
@@RossM3838and Space 1999
@craigplatel813 6 ай бұрын
@@MarkMcLTand don't forget Leo G Carroll as Mr Waverly in the Man from U.N.C.L.E.
@RossM3838 6 ай бұрын
And Hitchcock favorite Leo g. Carrol played Mr waverly, the boss on the James Bond parody show the man from uncle. North by north west was the home of lots of future spies
@ElliotNesterman 6 ай бұрын
It's her leg razor. A few years earlier Eva Marie Saint had won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in _On the Waterfront,_ one of the greatest American films. _On the Waterfront_ won eight Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Marlon Brando. It's one that should absolutely be on your list. Another Cary Grant crime/mystery/romance/thriller you should add to your list is _Charade_ (1963). Co-starring Audrey Hepburn and directed by Stanley Donen it has been called "the greatest Alfred Hitchcock movie Hitchcock never made."
@thomast8539 6 ай бұрын
OK, you just keep telling yourself that. Much too small for a leg razor.
@martyemmons1859 6 ай бұрын
Dawn Marie hasn't watched "Charade"? I have "Charade" saved on my phone. The Henry Mancini "Charade" song doesn't get the superlative praise it deserves.
@craigplatel813 6 ай бұрын
@@thomast8539well it could be a convenience item left in the rest room if the train compartment. Overnight trains would do that. If it is her's it could be a woman's safety razor, but women didn't really shave their pubes back then.
@SRG558 6 ай бұрын
Believe it or not, Eva Marie Saint, one of the most beautiful actresses of all time is still alive. She turned 99 on July 4, 2023. She's truly one of the last of the Golden Age of Hollywood! PS: Dawn, you think too much! About the end, he was just pulling her up to the bed, sort of a continuation of him pulling her up on the monument. They lived happily ever after!
@jimglenn6972 9 күн бұрын
Happy 100 th birthday !🎂 Ms. Saint
@NoKoolAidForMe 6 ай бұрын
Hitchcock movies are not whodunits. They are more about: what would you do if you were faced with this situation? I think this is one of his masterpieces. Great choice.
@MLJ7956 6 ай бұрын
And this film is the ultimate - 'The Wrong Man' scenario plot (which Hitchcock has done in several of his films).
@HuntingViolets 5 ай бұрын
Except _Stage Fright._
@christophermerlot3366 6 ай бұрын
This movie contains one of the classic bloopers. During the scene in the Mt Rushmore cafe the take we see is take two. There's a little boy in the background who was scared of the gunshot noise after take one so when they went to shoot another take he puts his hands over his ears before the shot because he knew it was coming.
@chrispittman8854 6 ай бұрын
The most adorable gaff EVER. LOL!
@Sheffield_Steve 6 ай бұрын
I've never looked out for that before, I will in future! 🤭
@kschneyer 6 ай бұрын
So glad you liked it! Your reaction was delightful. The title comes from Hamlet: “I am but mad north-northwest; when the wind is in the south, I can tell a hawk from a handsaw.” The $5 tip in those days would be about $50 today. Tiny women’s razors in those days were used for legs & armpits; pube shaving didn’t become popular until the late 1980s, except for the “bikini line.” Microfilm was a way of storing miniaturized photos of documents. Many libraries had multi-volume collections of periodicals on microfilm, and it featured prominently in spy movies. I see that someone has already mentioned the Vaudeville roots of “pay the two dollars.” ;)
@bobbuethe1477 6 ай бұрын
Or, for the more literal-minded, look at the sign in the background at 29:13. He flew north (to Mt. Rushmore) by Northwest Airlines.
@AmatureAstronomer 6 ай бұрын
"Psycho", "The Birds" and "Dial M for Murder" are all excellent choices!
@Muck006 5 ай бұрын
I would prefer "To Catch a Thief" and even "The 39 Steps" ...
@3dbadboy1 5 ай бұрын
There's also Rebecca (1940).
@davidkoury7097 6 ай бұрын
Dawn Marie, Hitchcock's favorite film that he directed was "Shadow of a Doubt". It's worth checking out. Thanks for your reaction.
@Richard_Ashton 6 ай бұрын
When at the airport, the plane flew north, the airline was called ‘Northwest’ so the last journey was ‘North, by Northwest’.
@Dej24601 6 ай бұрын
One of my favorite Hitchcock films is “Notorious” (1946) which is suspenseful, romantic, witty, and brings in post-war politics and features a few scenes that developed a new device/technique for filming, similar to how they developed one for the vertigo scenes in “Vertigo.” It stars the iconic Cary Grant, the exquisite Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca) and extremely talented Claude Rains.
@Cosmo-Kramer 5 ай бұрын
I rank it as Hitch's second best picture, just behind, Rear Window.
@brandonflorida1092 6 ай бұрын
In an interview, Hitchcock was asked something like, "North by Northwest is just fun, no symbolism right?" He said, "Yes, no symbolism.....Oh, one exception, the very last shot of the movie." Think about it.
@dan_hitchman007 6 ай бұрын
Given the star power of Cary Grant and his start in films was mainly in screwball comedies, Cary Grant usually ad libbed many of his own witty lines of dialog, especially if he had a problem with the script as written. The other actors and the director would simply play along with Grant because they trusted him. They understood how to keep him happy and that he often elevated the movie with whatever he came up with. Grant was almost like a second director towards the peak of his stardom.
@MrVvulf 6 ай бұрын
One of my favorite actors of all time. When his daughter was born he walked away from Hollywood (age 62) to raise her, and never worked again. Another reason I admired him was this quote - "I'm opposed to actors taking sides in public and spouting spontaneously about love, religion or politics. We aren't experts on these subjects. Personally I'm a mass of inconsistencies when it comes to politics. My opinions are constantly changing. That's why I don't ever take a public stand on issues." -- Cary Grant
@TTM9691 6 ай бұрын
screwball comedies - not to mention Hitchcock movies- were tightly scripted affairs, that's total garbage what you're babbling. There was improv in Bringing Up Baby, that's the seed of your comment. Other than that, they didn't just turn the camera on and let Grant "riff" (which most actors didn't do back in the day , aywas). And definitely not in this movie or classic screwball comedies that he was in like "His Girl Friday" (one of the best scripts ever) or "The Awful Truth". Seeing that half of his movies are play adaptations, it's even more ridiculous. it's so hilarious how every movie reaction has some commenter claiming everything was "improv'd". If you knew anything about acting, you'd know that what's amazing is taking a script and dialog and making it seem natural and interesting. Movies are expensive affairs and they like to leave as little to chance as possible. Obviously if you have a Peter Sellers or have developed an improv style like Christopher Guest, you can factor in the improv "x" factor. But Cary Grant was an actor who memorized incredibly well-written lines and delivered them with style. A style, I might add, that Cary Grant didn't come up with as much as (director) Leo McCarey. It's so funny how people have this fantasy about actors "improv-ing" everything. You use improv when you don't have anything else. As a last resort.
@christopherschafer7675 6 ай бұрын
Strangers On A Train 1951. Wonderful reaction, as always.
@user-so5qp1ql1y 6 ай бұрын
"She" is Eva Marie Saint. She is a very good actress with +/- 75 years of acting to her name. She is 99 now and retired. The "Professor" is an actor Leo G. Caroll. I first remember seeing him in a weekly sitcom in the 50s called "Topper". He co-starred with an alcoholic St. Bernard ghost and two human ghosts. "What Happened!" The final scene was the classic "train into the tunnel" inuendo. I think they were very much alive at the end. BTW the crop dusting scene could have been shot just outside most houses from Texas to Canada in a 1000 o 2000 mile east-west strip called the great plains.
@paulhazell4386 6 ай бұрын
Leo G Carroll later starred as Alexander Waverly in The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
@user-so5qp1ql1y 6 ай бұрын
True. I just liked Topper a lot.@@paulhazell4386
@heywoodjablowme8120 6 ай бұрын
Eve Marie Saint last of the golden age of cinema. She'll be 100 on the 4th of July.
@leftcoaster67 6 ай бұрын
Dawn clearly needs to watch this a few more times. :)
@portland-182 6 ай бұрын
A massive influence on the James Bond movies. A well dressed man on a spy adventure, with travelogue aspects, and a beautiful woman, in thriller, suspense situations, with excellent music.
@Thomgxx100 6 ай бұрын
Please react to 1955 "To catch a thief" another Hitchcock movie. Grace Kelly and Cary Grant are absolutely epic !
@Mike-rw2nh 6 ай бұрын
Massive props to the top notch detail provided by your subs in the comments section. I’ve learned so much.
@dwarzel 5 ай бұрын
"Pay the two dollars" is the punchline to an old joke. She's essentially telling him to quit while he's ahead.
@Ty_The_Bonsai_Guy 6 ай бұрын
Fun fact. In the scene where Eva shoots Cary Grant, if you watch the little boy in the background, siting at the table, he puts his hands over his ears before Eva shoots. The boy was an extra and he knew the shot was coming. 30:43 They never caught it in post production, so the mistake made it into the film. 🤣 Always makes me laugh.
@ParkerAllen2 6 ай бұрын
I get home from work and there's a video of Dawn Marie watching one of my favorite Hitchcock films. Since I can't experience this one for the first time again, it's fun to experience your first time watching it. Thanks for posting this.
@mikealvarez2322 6 ай бұрын
Great reaction and you have awakened in me my desire to see these old classics again.
@manofthehour6856 6 ай бұрын
OOOOOOH!!! Good choice, Dawn!!! Haven't seen it in years, and it will be a joy watching along with you!!!!😃....PS DAWN, just finished the video. MICROFILM is hidden in the belly of the statue. Before memory sticks, etc, secret documents would be photographed and stored on microfilm in spy movies....but libraries would store documents that way as well because of the compact size. And there is a LOT in any Hitchcock film that might not make sense, as he was more interested in the suspense and moving the plot along, rather than overthinking details. He used the term "Maguffin" for something that the villians were after, but it could be anything. It didn't matter to him, but it was their motivation. So glad that you appreciated the movie, and got into the characters! I tip my hat to the smart Scotswoman! An early Happy Robert Burns Day to you.
@countlezard1546 6 ай бұрын
Mount Rushmore formally at the corner of Randolph St and Michigan Ave in downtown Chicago. They moved it to South Dakota when all the tourists started clogging up the intersection.
@sawyer33 6 ай бұрын
How did Dawn, of all people, not get the reference at the end of the phallic train going into the open hole in the mountain? 🙃
@HuntingViolets 5 ай бұрын
"That wasn't very sporting, using real bullets" is maybe my favorite line in this (referring back to the shooting of Thornhill with blanks).
@davidhuggan6315 6 ай бұрын
Great movie, and my kids love it, and they are only teenagers and 9! The crop-dusting scene was very ahead of its time, effects-wise.
@jamesfield1674 6 ай бұрын
You really should watch "Rebecca" it's amazing :)
@Texy88 6 ай бұрын
At 30:43, if you look in the background you can see an extra in the form of a little boy wearing a blue shirt. He puts his fingers in his ears before the woman fired that gun (he must've been psychic!).
@stanmiggins 6 ай бұрын
Lost count of the times my wife and I have watched this. Has always been our favourite film.
@logan-dy4cf 6 ай бұрын
Arsenic and old lace should be on the list .
@ronwilcox7716 6 ай бұрын
I almost hurt myself clicking on this when I saw it. Love you and love this movie! Keep it up! You continue to rock!
@Texy88 6 ай бұрын
I'm so glad that I managed to see Mount Rushmore whilst I had a fortnight-long touring holiday in the United States back in 2011.
@DewJee2019 6 ай бұрын
This is more like an action comedy "spy" movie. Some people look at it as the first "James Bond" type movie. In any case, Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint are smooth and gorgeous, respectively, in this film. One of my favorites.
@Topherlee2 6 ай бұрын
Correct me if I’m wrong, but Cary Grant was supposed to be the first James Bond but turned it down after he told the producers he’ll only do one film.
@bluebird1239 6 ай бұрын
Alfred Hitchcock produced and directed North By Northwest but Ernest Lehman wrote the screenplay. A bit of trivia: Hitchcock would often make a brief appearance in his films and you can see him getting a bus door slammed in his face just as his name credit appears on the screen. The beautiful actress is Eva Marie Saint, who is retired but had a 75 year career.
@Okaydo1 6 ай бұрын
Eva Marie Saint was born in 1924. And she's still alive in 2024. She turns 100 in July.
@glennwisniewski9536 6 ай бұрын
"He saw a pretty face and then he was just Play-Doh." Dawn, you're the best.
@cafesmitty 6 ай бұрын
"I think they died". You are out twisting, the twist master, Alfred Hitchcock. Oh and Cary Grant is one of the great leading men of Hollywood's past. Humor, timing, mannerism and my dude is fly in a suit.
@Dej24601 6 ай бұрын
The heads on Mt Rushmore are approximately 60 ft (18 meters) high and are an imposing sight. Hitchcock was not allowed to film/climb on the actual monument, so duplicates were built on a stage set.
@billolsen4360 6 ай бұрын
15:40 Back in those days, they did seat people with strangers in dining cars on trains because space was so limited. 15:10 Back then $5 was like $50 today 🙂 30:21 Mt Rushmore does look that cool! And so does the countryside around it. 39:40 Hitchcock wrote the plot outline from an idea he had of a murder happening in the United Nations but his co-writer and he brainstormed over several days and eventually evolved the story into this. Yes, Van Damm was under arrest at the end.
@Mr59Kenzo 6 ай бұрын
Hitchcock noted, in an interview with director Peter Bogdanovich in 1963, “It's a fantasy. The whole film is epitomized in the title - there is no such thing as north-by-northwest on the compass.” The airline that Roger Thornhill uses to travel to South Dakota is the now defunct Northwest Airlines.
@pauld6967 6 ай бұрын
Mr. and Mrs. Thornhill were quite alive at the end of the film and a train going into a tunnel traditionally symbolizes their physically consumating the marriage. I am glad you have seen this movie, it is one I have always enjoyed.
@oobrocks 6 ай бұрын
Trivia; the end isn’t mnt Rushmore; filmed on a sound stage (shocking right?). Bernard Herrmann was a legendary composer ❤. Ps: even in 1965, drunk driving wasn’t necessarily a big deal. My mom was caught and she was allowed to drive home (with a police officer following her,) and nothing else happened!
@meyerhave 6 ай бұрын
@oobrocks: "Pay the two dollars" is a punchline from an old vaudeville routine (ie., cease & desist with your protestations) and along with ending up in the "drunk tank", was nowhere near how much you'd actually be fined for drunk driving in circa 1958-1959.
@oobrocks 6 ай бұрын
Interesting
@cqde 6 ай бұрын
Microfilm was, as its name suggests, a really small film used to take photos of documents while being 1/25th the size. The reason rich people back then did not have cameras everywhere was because cameras were still film only. This was long before digital cameras.
@thomastimlin1724 6 ай бұрын
Many consider Cary Grant the first James Bond because of his performance in this movie.
@Dej24601 6 ай бұрын
Railroads used to provide their customers who bought a “room” with a small bag of toiletries, mostly mini sized. A mini razor was a common item.
@Sheffield_Steve 6 ай бұрын
"They poured a whole bottle of Bourbon in to me! No, they didn't give me a chaser!" Funny as f**k! 🤣
@charlesharris9692 5 ай бұрын
That was the most entertaining reaction I've ever seen. I love your plot guessing and hilarious motivation projections. You are a gem, Dawn, a true joy. Oh! and the tiny razor is probably part of the complimentary kit that comes with the compartment. Thanks for a great time!
@stupidsmart-phone6911 6 ай бұрын
Comment #3: I went to Mt. Rushmore and was disappointed the visitors center didn't look anything like the movie. They weren't allowed to film the movie there except take some establishing shots. The whole area is very nice, the monument and the state park. Dawn, if you ever come back to the USA, you should visit Rushmore and record your reaction. That would be cool.
@meyerhave 6 ай бұрын
"@stupidsmart-phone6911 They weren't allowed to film the movie there except take some establishing shots." That's incorrect. They filmed more than "establishing shots" at Mt. Rushmore. They WERE allowed to film movie scenes there. Three examples for instance; Eva Marie Saint is filmed outside running from the Mt. Rushmore Park visitor's center after the "shooting", and is next seen in the actual Mt. Rushmore visitor parking lot getting in her car and fleeing. Leo G. Carroll is seen outside heading briskly towards the actual visitor's center shortly before the eventual climatic scene of "Eve" shooting "Roger". October 1958: Photos of Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason on location at Mt. Rushmore to film actual scenes can easily be found on the internet. The cast members would not have been needed, would not have been present, on location if Hitchcock was only allowed to shoot "establishing shots". Martin Landau (in 2009): " The stuff we shot (at Mt. Rushmore) were the scene in the parking lot with Eva Marie running out, with the faces in the background and some other scenes. We were only there a couple of days."
@jedlogan392 5 ай бұрын
One of my favorite Hitchcock movies. It was made even better by getting to rewatch it with Dawn Marie.
@cyberingcatgirls7069 6 ай бұрын
The statuette contained microfilm, which was what secret information was stored on before we had computers and thumb drives. Text, pictures, mechanical plans, etc. could all be stored on microfilm.
@futuramayeah 6 ай бұрын
dawn, at the very end they showed a train going into a tunnel, in movies, that is a euphamism for putting a p____ into a p_____
@ramblingRJ 6 ай бұрын
The henchman Leonard was played by Martin Landau, who later won an Oscar playing Bela Lugosi in "ED WOOD".
@creech54 6 ай бұрын
And was a regular in the '60s spy series "Mission Impossible".
@ramblingRJ 6 ай бұрын
@@creech54 And "Space: 1999".
@kevinhouse4376 6 ай бұрын
The lead actress in this film, Eva Marie Saint, is still alive at 99!
@michaelceraso1977 6 ай бұрын
Nice that you have chosen this classic A Hitchcock film, THAT's Eva Marie Saint and shes still alive and will be 100 later this year. She was in another big film- ON the waterfront with Marlon Brando and she won her Oscar as his girl friend. Oh and micro fiche was like a film strip that contains info or images many yrs ago. lol
@merkury06 6 ай бұрын
As you can see the journey was North by NorthWest, from New York, to Chicago, to S. Dakota. A great trip, best by train or car. Airplane, you really miss out. Fun watching with you!
@Dej24601 6 ай бұрын
When Thornhill meets the real Townsend, he mentions that the house is shut up except for the gardener and his wife. When Thornhill and his Mom, etc leave the house, the camera shows a gardener who is one of the 2 men from the original kidnapping, also in the elevator and more and threw the knife into the real Townsend. So he and his wife (the housekeeper who held Thornhill up with the gun) worked for Van Damm. It is mentioned that it is during the “Cold War” so the assumption is that Van Damm worked for the Russians. Microfilm was a common technique used in those times; plans or maps or documents or chemical formulas, etc could be photographed and then miniaturized into very tiny bits and smuggled inside almost anything.
@dogsoldiertoo1099 6 ай бұрын
The lead actress is Eva Marie Saint. She's still with us and will turn 100 years old on July 4, 2024.
@thomastimlin1724 6 ай бұрын
Mount Rushmore...near Rapid City South Dakota. We were there in June 2021 on a long trip out west. I was also once there as a child with my parents and little brother.
@drgoremd 6 ай бұрын
"Imagine if he fell and died right at the end of the movie after everything that's happened." Yeah, that sure would be a crazy way for a director like Alfred Hitchcock to end one of his movies...for sure.
@HonRevPTB 6 ай бұрын
"You need cameras microphones and oh dogs, DAAAWGS!!!" LMFAO 😆😂🤣😆😂🤣 BRILLIANT ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT, DAWN I LOVE YOU, YOU SLAY ME!!!!!!!
@mikealvarez2322 6 ай бұрын
If you are into the classics like North By Northwest, there is a plethora of films to choose from. For example many consider the Wizard of Oz (1939) as the first color movie when The Adventures of Robin Hood, in color, came out a year earlier in 1938. Two great westerns from the 60s & 70s are HOW THE WEST WAS WON (has some of the greatest stars of that time in it) and LITTLE BIG MAN starring Dustin Hoffman. You might want to consider these movies.
@Johnsrage 6 ай бұрын
The 1938 The Adventures of Robin Hood is the best movie ever made. Skip all other versions of Robin Hood, or make sure you see this one first, it's the best.
@BubbaCoop 6 ай бұрын
Color movies go back to the 1900's, not 1930s.
@TTM9691 6 ай бұрын
What are you talking about? Robin Hood is far from the first color movie, they were making color movies in the silent era. Technicolor started in the 20s. "The Black Pirate" is what put color on the map (and is still an amazing movie to watch....which you can do for free here on You Tube, incidentally. Go watch a real action movie, "The Black Pirate", in Technicolor, in 1926. (And "Down To The Sea In Ships" predated that one). They were hand-tinting films going back to the late 1800s/early 1900s. And in the 30s, "Becky Sharp" was 1933, "A Star Is Born", I think that was 1937. "Wizard Of Oz" was nowhere near the "first color film", and nor was "Robin Hood".
@mikealvarez2322 6 ай бұрын
@@TTM9691 I know all this. Learn how to read. I said some people think the Wizard of Oz is the first color film then I mentioned Robin Hood. I never said Robin Hood was the first. There were experiments with color going back to the turn of the century. One of the big problems was the film would warp. Kodak invented Technicolor and that changed the game. I didn't want to go into a dissertation on the history of color.
@TTM9691 6 ай бұрын
@@mikealvarez2322 ....then why bring it up at all, on a reaction to a movie made in 1959? lol. She's watched lots and lots of classics on this channel, she's well-aware there are "lots to choose from" and hits them very regularly on this channel. Go look at her video list, you won't find many reactors with MORE "golden age" era films on their channel, other than Mia Tiffany's. (Not to mention she's done the entire Monty Python TV series!). PS: There were many color films pre-Robin Hood. Not "experiments", actual Technicolor movies, hit movies, going back to the 1920s. The sound era color films were not "experiments", they were simply films in color, with improvements, just like anything else.
@RossM3838 6 ай бұрын
Pay the two dollars is a reference to an old vaudeville routine where a guy is charged two dollars for a very minor infraction but refuses to pay and instead contests and appeals the fine. It builds and builds until it becomes catastrophic. Just pay the two dollars is the refrain
@Sheffield_Steve 6 ай бұрын
This is the film that ended up with Cary Grant and James Mason being considered for James Bond, although Cary didn't want to commit to multiple films, so the rest is history!
@beowulfthedane 6 ай бұрын
want to see a blooper they left in? When she fake shoots him, before she takes out the gun, a young boy in the background plugs his ears.
@dmprdctns 6 ай бұрын
Exactly...! They're in heaven. Well done.
@luvthetube07 6 ай бұрын
I'm too happy Dawn. Once again you made my day!
@lisathuban8969 6 ай бұрын
A telegraph was the first long-distance way to communicate instantly. It came before the telephone, household electricity, and radio. Basically, you'd transmit a signal through wires (strung up like electric cable on poles overhead, just like now). The signal was made by a little machine that clicked every time you pushed it down. You could make long or short clicks which represented letters in the alphabet. This technology is almost 200 years old, btw. It became obsolete once the internet really got rolling.
@Neil_BT 6 ай бұрын
Love this film, one of my all-time favourites.
@lechat8533 5 ай бұрын
Thanks for another great reaction, Dawn Marie.❤ Imagine that Carry Crant was 55 in this movie. Eva Marie Saint was 35. Even in his 80s, Carry Grant looked very attractive and sexy. No wonder, after all, he was born in Bristol :) Tomorrow Jan.18 is his birthday anniversary. He would have been 120 years old. He really was one of a kind.
@behindthescenesphotos5133 6 ай бұрын
"Pay the two dollars" was a recurring phrase in a comedy sketch where a man fights a ticket and makes things progressively worse for himself despite everyone advising him to "just pay the two dollars."
@HuntingViolets 5 ай бұрын
Hitchcock wanted Thornhill to hide in Lincoln's nose and get found out when he sneezed. One of the titles considered for this movie was _The Man in Lincoln's Nose._ I read that once, anyway.
@droidx1191 6 ай бұрын
The working title of this movie was "The Man in Lincoln's Nose."
@Mark-xx3gh 6 ай бұрын
One of my favorite movies. If you look in the background of the scene where she shouts him, there’s a child who puts his fingers in his ears before she pulls the trigger because he knew there was a loud bang coming.
@Bozolisand 6 ай бұрын
Songwriter Sammy Cahn proactively wrote a song for the movie and pitched it to Alfred Hitchcock, who turned it down. It was a love theme called "The Man on Lincoln's Nose." I'm not kidding.
@stephaniemccarthy1676 6 ай бұрын
"Go on Lincoln's nose", brilliant! Lol.
@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710 6 ай бұрын
Hello, Roger Thornhill was trying to pull Miss Eve Kindle up from falling of the Mount Rushmore. To encourage and coax her he said to Eve " Come along Mrs. Thornhill. " Thus, proposing marriage to her. It renewed her energy. After the ordeal was over the new Couple were in their pajamas and Roger in the train bunk bed called down to Mrs. Thornhill " Come along Mrs. Thornhill. " . The End " Hey! "
@lisathuban8969 6 ай бұрын
I went to Mt. Rushmore for the first time this year. Yes, it's that cool. Even cooler in person.
@tranya327 6 ай бұрын
- The phrase ‘North by Northwest’ is supposed to sound like compass directions. But according to Hitchcock, there IS no actual compass direction: ‘North by Northwest.’ The idea was: you, the viewer, are primed to think there’s something there, even though there really isn’t. That kind of “chasing a ghost” is exactly what happens in the movie: Vandamm (and Roger Thornhill) are both trapped into pursuing a mysterious man named ‘George Kaplan,’ even though that person was completely made up, to trick Vandamm. (You also see the logo “Northwest” as indicating an airline, at the airport terminal.) -The chief enemy spy / antagonist ( Vandamm, played by James Mason) was standing next to the police (at the top of Mt. Rushmore), but was in police/Federal custody, when Leonard (Martin Landau) was shot by the police sergeant. - Roger Thornhill was pleading for Leonard to help him, because Leonard was the only other person nearby. Roger’s plea was irrational and one of desperation, because Leonard was there in the first place to kill both of them and to recover the microfilm, and there was no reason for him to suddenly change his mind. - There was ‘microfilm’ inside the belly of the small sculpture. Microfilm is similar to the strips of film used in 35 mm cameras, before cameras were digital. Except that more information was stored on microfilm. In public libraries, it was common and routine for old newspapers to be stored on microfilm and its close cousin, ‘microfiche.’ You asked the librarian to get the reels, installed them on the machine, and then wound them to the correct place, and could view the newspaper story or other documents on the projector-like viewing screen. - The entire plot of the movie started, because of a simple case of mistaken identity - but you have to be watching & listening very carefully to pick up on it: Roger Thornhill, by coincidence, raised his hand in the restaurant (to summon a waiter) at the exact moment that one of the staff called out for ‘George Kaplan.” The two leg breakers working for Vandamm saw and heard that, and went to the plausible-but-mistaken conclusion that Thornhill must be Kaplan. - Naw, they didn’t both die at the end. Hitchcock is weird, but he’s not THAT weird. (Besides, films made at that time were still under the Hays Code - which had the overall guidelines that in serious film stories, bad guys must be defeated and good guys must win.) - Because the future creators of the James Bond films (Broccoli and Saltzman) were heavily influenced by this film, and because the Bond films now are up to # 25, you can plausibly say that this film, ‘North by Northwest’ was so powerful that it inspired at least twenty-five ‘sequels’ over the next 65 years. …Not bad - not bad at all!
@keithmartin4670 5 ай бұрын
“I know what’s going on, but I *don’t* know what’s going on, and I’m loving it” - all-purpose reaction to every good Hitchcock movie. Also this is one of probably a dozen of his movies in which an innocent man on the run from both criminals and police is assisted by an attractive blonde.
@hiroprotagonist525 6 ай бұрын
"She shot him in the pipi!" ROTFLOL!!!
@TD-mg6cd 6 ай бұрын
"Pay the $2." Is a way of saying don't fight it. Just pay the ticket. In the dinning car Eva says, " I never discuss love on an empty stomach." Watch her lips. She actually said, " I never make love on an empty stomach." The censors made them dub over it.
@Anon54387 6 ай бұрын
Yes, they were in Chicago and that scene with the crop duster was in the country side of Illinois outside Chicago.
@3dbadboy1 5 ай бұрын
You can also see James Mason (Van Damme) in the Disney version of 20,000 Leagues under the Sea. It also stars Peter Lorre (Casablanca) and Kirk Douglas (father of Michael Douglas).
@spyboy1964 6 ай бұрын
Happy New Year Dawn! Loved your reaction. They didn't die at the end, Hitchcock just cut to them on the train (both safe and sound, and married). That cut sometimes confuses young audiences of today because they are not used to seeing that in modern movies. That transition saves time and is also comically surreal. The last shot of the train going into the tunnel is also implying something if you know what I mean.
@trolledyouso1307 6 ай бұрын
36:58 - "You need to have security cameras everywhere in the house" ...What, in 1958? 🤣🤣🤣
@Anon54387 6 ай бұрын
North by northwest is roughly the direction he traveled from the beginning of the movie to the end, from New York City to Mount Rushmore. Speaking of Mount Rushmore, that scene in the restaurant where he was shot, it took several takes to get it right. The people knew what was coming, and if you watch it closely enough there is a kid in that restaurant covering his ears in anticipation of the noise.
@Anon54387 6 ай бұрын
The kid in the blue shirt to the right in the background just a bit before Kendall shoots Thornhill.
@argentokaos2629 6 ай бұрын
Fun fact: Eva Marie Saint--- the only surviving lead cast member of this classic--- is the oldest living Oscar winner (at 99).
@Dreamfox-df6bg 6 ай бұрын
Microfilm is essentially like a photograph. Take an old camera and make a picture of a written page. And now shrink the text, so that a small dot the size of a millimetre has several pages in it. Back before there were computers this was how spies were able to smuggle lots of stolen information. You could hide them on top of regular dots in a normal book, inside a watch and in so many places that it's extremely difficult to find them. But microfilm wasn't restricted to the dot. A microfilm the size of a normal sheet of paper could hold an entire book. In the past some libraries made copies of their books to be stored elsewhere or to save to books from the wear of being read, especially rare books. Vandamm had his entire operation on microfilm, something the agents didn't know. All they were sure of was that he had it written down somewhere and would take it with him. So she was supposed to get that information so they could take out his entire organization. After Thornhill heard that they were using microfilm this was no longer necessary as they knew what they were looking for. Microfilm is not impossible to find, just very difficult in some cases, but first you need to know what you are looking for.
@GeneralGeorgeS.PattonJr. 5 ай бұрын
TOWNSEND "I thought it was the end of the town"🤣 YOU are a RIOT, milady! What a great imagination you have. 15:42 The blonde woman, Eva Marie Saint is still alive, Dawn. She's 99 now, in 2024. When the plane crashed into the tanker truck, they were trying to get low to shoot or spray him again, they did not anticipate the truck coming to a full stop & didn't have time to pull-up.
@SuperVader7986 6 ай бұрын
According to the making of documentary on the blu-ray, Hitchcock was not allowed to film outside the United Nations building, so they had a camera in a van I think and had Carry Grant turn up in the tax and they filmed it on the fly, those two (and all the people of course) guards on the top of the steps are real guards and were unaware filing was going on. When Eva Marie Saint's character says on the train says "I never discuss Love on an empty stomach" it was actually filmed and you can see if you look hard; that she said "I never make Love on an empty stomach" but it was dubbed over as it was a bit too suggestive for the time period etc.
@maximillianosaben 6 ай бұрын
Cary Grant was completely lost on what was going on in this movie while making it, and he was all but certain the movie would not do well at the box office. He was shocked when it was a huge success with audiences and critics. His gray suit would even become an iconic piece of clothing from cinema.
@Packard63 6 ай бұрын
Always enjoy the end of a movie that sends Dawn's head spinning in all directions.....the truth is out there somewhere. Lets hope you try the bird one....Ha!
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