North by Northwest
1959, NR, 136 min.
D: Alfred Hitchcock; with Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason.

One of Hitchcock’s very best comic thrillers, North by Northwest features scene after unforgettable scene – including the ones of the crop-duster chasing Cary Grant and the Mount Rushmore sequence. This 40th anniversary print of the movie was recorded with Dolby Digital Stereo. Although the movie was recorded in stereo, it has only played in mono until now. Also, on display in the Paramount lobby will be digital facsimiles of screenwriter Ernest Lehman’s shooting script, detailing the crop-duster sequence; the exhibit is courtesy of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at UT.

This article appears in December 24 • 1999.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.