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North by Northwest(1959)
Released
1959 · FILM

North by Northwest

An advertising executive is mistaken for a secret agent and thrust into a deadly conspiracy, forcing him to outwit foreign diplomats and ruthless assassins while trying to prove his innocence before he’s silenced forever.

“It's a deadly game of "tag" and Cary Grant is "it"!”

Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
Written by
Ernest Lehman
Rated
MPA · G
Runtime
136 min
AdventureDramaMystery

Synopsis

Advertising executive Roger Thornhill is wrongly identified as a spy, setting off a perilous chase across the country.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 25

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by George TomasiniShot by Robert BurksScored by Bernard HerrmannDesigned by Robert F Boyle

Box Office

1959 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$13.3M

Budget$4.0M
Worldwide gross$13.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Der unsichtbare Drittede
  • La Mort aux troussesfr
  • Intrigo internazionaleit

Companies

ProductionMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

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