In Alfred Hitchcock's film 'North By Northwest', which actress was Cary Grant saving from James Mason?
North by Northwest North by Northwest North by Northwest is a 1959 American thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason. The screenplay was by Ernest Lehman, who wanted to write "the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures". "North by Northwest" is a tale of mistaken identity, with an innocent man pursued across the United States by agents of a mysterious organization trying to prevent him from blocking their plan to smuggle out microfilm which contains government secrets. This is one of several Hitchcock films which feature a music score by Bernard Herrmann and
North by Northwest but Lehman changed it to a Madison Avenue advertising executive, a position which he had formerly held. In an interview in the book "Screenwriters on Screenwriting" (1995), Lehman stated that he had already written much of the screenplay before coming up with critical elements of the climax. This was the only Hitchcock film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is currently owned by Turner Entertainment, which owns the pre-1986 MGM film library. Production costs on "North by Northwest" were seriously escalated when a delay in filming put Cary Grant into the penalty phase of his contract, resulting in an additional $5,000 per