A brilliant and influential film by none other than the "Master" himself: Alfred Hitchcock. Since it's release, it has been labelled as one of the best films ever made with enough twists and turns to keep the audience at the edge of their seats. A trademark of Hitchcock's. The film is about an advertiser named Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) who becomes mistaken for a man wanted by a group of spies for the possession of microfilm. While he escapes from the capture of the men via rail, he meets a lovely traveller Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint) who he quickly takes a liking to. The woman is smart, she realizes that he is running away from the mistaken identity not the man he wants her to believe he is. Throughout the film the two embark on many misleading adventures (another trademark of Hitchcock's) and learn more about each other along the way. For example, Roger initially believes that Kendall is an innocent woman who is determined to help him escape the spies who are out to get him. Then however, he is thrown a curveball when he sees Kendall behaving with the spies as though she is the leader's mistress. Hold on! Then he discovers that Kendall is really working for the good guys trying to take down the spies who are after him by misleading them as well. Let's just say that to get the most out of this brilliant classic you need to see it for yourself. No amount of explanation can hold a candle to the intense creative genius of this film. Before I saw it for the first time, I had a very limited knowledge of classic cinema. To be honest I barely knew who Cary Grant was! This film sparked my interest of the precious gems of the past.
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