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5 unusual facts about North By Northwest


California State Route 155

Route 155 (near the intersection with 6th Ave/Dairy Ave) was the location of the famous "crop duster" scene from the Alfred Hitchcock film North by Northwest.

Do You Like Hitchcock?

A distraught woman is held from falling by the arm of the person above her as in North by Northwest (a similar scene with Jimmy Stewart is also featured at the beginning of Vertigo).

Inaam Dus Hazaar

This movie is a scene for scene remake of Alfred Hitchcock` s thriller North by Northwest.

Nobody Lives for Ever

Benson praised the story's "many surprising turns" and believed that if it were a film it would "have much of the same tension that something like Hitchcock's North by Northwest had."

Points of the compass

The title of the famous Alfred Hitchcock 1959 movie, North by Northwest, is actually not a direction point on the 32-wind compass, but the film contains a reference to Northwest Airlines.


J. Tobias Anderson

In his video works, most frequently in the form of animations, Anderson refers to film history and renowned film classics, as well as film genres - particularly Hitchcock, along with action and thriller sequences of escape and chase (from films North by Northwest, Rope, The Birds and Bullitt).

LaSalle Street Station

This station was a set for Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 North by Northwest, starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint, and in the 1973 movie The Sting starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford.

Madge Kennedy

In the late 1950s, she combined TV work with roles in movies like The Catered Affair (1956), Lust for Life (1956), Houseboat (1958), A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed (1958), Plunderers of Painted Flats (1959), and North by Northwest (1959).

Paul Genge

Other film roles include that of a payoff man in The Outfit (1973), a California Highway Patrol officer in 1967's Hot Rods to Hell, Whitey, a communist suspect in The FBI Story (1959) and Lieutenant Hagerman in North By Northwest (1959).

The Vulcan Affair

Robert Vaughn was cast in this role to give the character an urbane, sophisticated style similar to Cary Grant's role in North by Northwest.

Which Lie Did I Tell?

The next part of the book has Goldman analyzing scenes from various screenplays he admires including There's Something About Mary, North by Northwest and Chinatown.


see also

Anna Lyman

She appears at Jazz Festivals, and was the subject of a CBC Radio, North by Northwest Interview.

New Brunswick Route 695

Route 695 is a local highway which begins at an intersection with Route 124 in Springfield, New Brunswick and runs north by northwest for 34 kilometers to its terminus with Route 105 in Jemseg.