"The thing with North by Northwest is that it's a very modern film, not only in its color and design, and the fact that it's almost a musical without music, done very pointedly for MGM in VistaVision.

These Films Showcase A Darker, More Mature Side To Grant’s Talents Grant and Hitchcock’s movies together include Suspicion, Notorious, To Catch a Thief, and North by Northwest.

-- Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill, protagonist in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959). Alfred Hitchcock at Mount Rushmore during the filming of North By Northwest.12 October 1958. PD.