North by Northwest

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A classic I hadn’t seen.

I just read a plot summary in Wikipedia to remind myself of this movie’s goings-on, and it’s surprising how absurd this plot is. The movie is satisfyingly full of tension and surprises, and the scene at the house near the Mt. Rushmore memorial, up to the closing shot goes satisfyingly from extreme tension to comic resolution. I'm afraid that the older my hero, Cary Grant, gets, the more more dignified and less comic his roles become.