Summary of North By Northwest.

North By Northwest

North by Northwest is a thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, the film that follows the life of a unsuspecting hero called Roger Thornhill.

Thornhill is a advertisement agent who gets mistaken to be a Agent by the name of George Caplain. As the story progresses through a number of action and high adrenaline scenes. The earliest of these being the car chase scene after Mr Thornhill escapes the foreign spies house after being made drunk and had an attempt on his life made. As the film progresses our hero meets a lady which he at first believes to be a good soul trying to help him, although knowing she knows who he is as he quickly becomes famous for the deeds that people believe he has done due to the foreign spies.

Around mid way through the film we discover that the lady he has met is actually working for the foreign spies and has betrayed him, although he does not learn of this until much later on, by using the techniques of a red herring we are constantly confused about where her loyalty lies, this is not only because we learn that she is working with the foreign spies, but because we learn that she is actually a spy herself infiltrating the foreign spies. As Mr Thornhill develops feelings for her he puts her life in much danger as some of the spies start to suspect that she is actually working against them.

Another key scene in the film is the 'Crop Duster Scene' which involves Mr Thornhill desperately running and diving from an aeroplane as he attempts to save his own life, after a gasoline filled truck pulls up and causes the aeroplane to crash into it the scene is finished with an almighty explosion, giving Thornhill time to steal an unsuspecting witnesses car.

The film comes to a dramatic end as Mr Thornhill escapes with the heroine saving her life as well as his own.