My friend Dorothy's father wrote the music for this film. Really tremendous score. Check out with Cary Grant in NOTORIOUS (1946) or TO CATCH A THIEF (1955) both directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Your friend is the daughter of Bernard Herrmann? Wow, that's so cool. He is one of the GOATs of movie composers for me. You ever had the chance to meet him im person?
There was an old Vaudeville routine, filmed several times, where a guy commits a small traffic violation (one is an errant traffic signal where it appears it he went through a red light). The fine is $2 but the guy decides to fight it on the principal of the thing. Matters escalate bit by bit to where he is facing life in prison, with the tag line "Just pay the $2." (Have no idea what the actual fine would have been at the time but much greater.)
@johnnehrich9601 I just learned where that "Pay the $2" came from about 2 years ago! Yet I've loved this movie for many years, I assumed that's how cheap a DUI fine was back then, but that had nothing to do with it. Your explanation is where that line in the film comes from!
@@CoopyKat Yes, for the longest time I didn't know either. However, it is true that at least in the 1930's, DUI was not considered a bit deal ("boys will be boys") and it took MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Drivers) to get society to treat it more seriously.
@@johnnehrich9601 Cars were like Tanks and the Model T may have went 45-50 miles an hour at top speed, and on an old dirt road probably more like 35, so in the 20 and 30s a guy driving drunk couldn't really hurt much.
I thought it odd that, even back then, a fine for drunk driving would be merely $2 even though $2 was worth more then it would still be a slap on the wrist for drunk driving. The Ziegfeld Follies put their own spin on this when a guy was caught spitting on the subway car. But his lawyer refuses to settle, and it spirals out of control. I didn't realize this was a reference to the Ziegfeld Follies and this bit at first.
A Gibson is a Martini, but the olive is replaced with a pickled onion. I definitely got the refrigerator joke. Back before the internet and cell phones and all that, newspapers often had an evening edition. The name comes from either a Hamlet quote: "I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw." or it may be that it was because Thornhill was supposed to move in that direction, during the movie. The finale was originally planned to be in Alaska.
If you want to see a younger Cary Grant in a great comedy I'd suggest His Girl Friday, directed by the great Howard Hawks. Rapid fire dialogue and moves at a breakneck pace. It holds up quite well.
Mr Hitchcock always appeared in his movies 🙂 26:00 Cary Grant was a professional acrobat in his teens, looks like he was still agile in his 50's. 35:02 North by northwest was part of the instructions Eve gave Roger after she was in that phone booth at the Chicago train station. I think a lot of James Bond movies were patterned on this film.
Hitchcock was the best. Please watch more by Hitch; I recommend Rear Window, Lifeboat, and Rope. For Cary Grant movies, I recommend Charade, Holiday, and Bringing Up Baby.
It`s always great to see the younger generation exploring older classic movies. I did so myself years ago & was rewarded with some wonderful films & performances, such as this. By the way, IMO, you can`t go wrong with any Cary Grant films. You might like to try (Arsenic & Old Lace) it`s a dark comedy from 1944 or the 1937 (Topper) a supernatural comedy.
Check out Cary Grant in “Holiday” (1938.) He was born in England and got his start there performing with vaudeville troupes and learning a lot of acrobatic skills. In “Holiday” he gets to show some of those! It is also a sweet and funny film, co-starting Katharine Hepburn, and deals with society towards the end of The Depression and before WW2.
Computers at the time were extremely rare, occupied entire basements, and were less powerful than today's calculators - by the long shot. In normal everyday life, rarely encountered. Use in movies or anything similar began in the 1990's - Jurassic Park was one of the first with any CGI but I bet used for editing even later. Back then they physically cut and spliced strips of film.
Good catch Colin, yes, that was Alfred Hitchcock at the beginning. He was known for his cameo appearances in his own movies. And Lorna, "Singing in the Rain" was my favorite movie when I was a kid - and gave me an excuse to play outside in the rain and jump into puddles 😉. Still love it. A great classic Hollywood musical. Thx for the great entertaining reaction to a great movie. And can we appreciate the fantastic score by Bernard Herrmann. His works for Hitchcock are amongst the best movie scores of all time IMO.
@@weebitreacts I have similar memories. Used to watch it with my late mom as a kid. Unfortunately back in the late 70s we had to wait for it to be on regular TV, no videorecorders or DVD players back than 😉 My second movie that brings back same kind of memories would be "My Fair Lady".
@@weebitreacts Don't know if that's something for a YT reaction, but you should give it a watch. The movie is pretty entertaining, and the music is great - if you are into musical stuff.
Marnie is a great Alfred Hitchcock. Didn’t you know that he would cameo in his movies? He decided that he would make it obvious and put himself in early, so that the audience could forget about looking for him and enjoy the movie.
This reaction was so much fun! Loved Colin twirling his pretend Dick Dastardly moustache!🤣 "Why would you cover for someone you don't know?" "Same reason you'd pay the 2 dollars for him"🤣😂 "And don't say guitar!!"😁 "He can only disguise half his face now!"😂 Colin was keeping up with Cary Grant, quip for quip!! And who knew Lorna was so modest around the naughty talk??☺️
@@weebitreacts For starters with Cary Grant films, I hope that before Christmas 2023 that you both watch and post your reaction to "THE BISHOP'S WIFE"(1947). I think you'll both really enjoy that film. As for Scotland, you must check out "I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING" (1945), a romance film which takes place on an island in the Scottish Hebrides.
Cary Grant was one of the leading Hollywood stars from the 1930s up to his last movie in 1966. He was outstanding in comedy, drama, and thrillers, yet weirdly never won an Oscar. Some of his best movies are “Bringing up Baby” (screwball comedy), “Gunga Din” (adventure), “Holiday” (romance), “The Philadelphia Story” (romantic comedy-drama), “His Girl Friday” (one of the greatest romantic comedies ever), and “Notorious” (another highly regarded, Hitchcock spy-thriller) Yes, the man trying to get on the bus at the beginning is Hitchcock. It was his Hollywood “trademark” to have a cameo in each of his films, and audiences enjoyed trying to spot him. Most of the effects in old movies were practical, in addition to back projection, stop-motion, lens filters, etc. Hitchcock wanted to film the chase on the real Mt. Rushmore, but the Park Service refused permission, so he built meticulous sets that were somewhat smaller than scale. The music was by Bernard Herrmann, a very famous film composer who also wrote the music for “Psycho.” New York is North of Washington, DC, where the FBI is based, and Mt. Rushmore is Northwest of Washington.
@@weebitreacts not exactly scary. The movie is about a sociopath in a dystopian world where violence is everywhere. The protagonist (if we can can him that) is out for a good time which means pummeling ordinary citizens. He also loves Beethoven.
The two goons at the start mistake him for Kaplan because he was calling for a page to contact his mother just at the moment the page was calling for Kaplan. The two baddies had obviously requested the page to call out for Kaplan because they wanted him but didn't know what he looked like. Bad luck for Roger Thornhill, but good luck for us. 😉
At the time, the phrase "pay the $2" was a common reference to traffic rickets. It was never meant literally. As to the title of the movie, when Thornhill and the Professor flew from Chicago to Rapid City, South Dakota, they were flying north on Northwest Airlines. The music is by Bernard Hermann, who at this time was Hitchcock's composer. He has a lot of brilliant scores, not the least of which are Hitchcock's "Vertigo" and "Psycho." Cary Grant is also great in an old, old movie called "Topper." Don't let the fact that no one here has heard of it stop you. It's a fabulous comedy. When Hitchcock was asked if there was any symbolism in this movie, he said "No.....Oh, sorry, yes, the very last shot."
"Topper" is a good suggestion. Another older film with Cary at his manic comedic best is "Arsenic and Old Lace". Later on, he was great in his pairing with Audrey Hepburn in a Hitchcockian style movie but not actually made by Hithcock called "Charade".
@@rs-ye7kw "Topper" is a fabulous movie, but there is exactly zero chance if it ever winning a poll on UA-cam because the younger people have never heard of it.
Computers were in development in 1959 but were enormous and took up entire rooms and were used only for military, scientific or technical purposes; there were none that were desktop or used for filmmaking. Special effects were “practical” - created with actual objects (like the plane explosion), with set design and/or with in-camera or film techniques.
The Hays Code was an extremely restrictive set of moral standards to ruled movies with an iron fist from the early '30's until 1968, when the current letter code rating system was implemented. Hitchcock constantly was pushing the envelope. However, in this case, Grant is told to sleep on the floor on the train, so as to not suggest anything else. The rest of the dialogue was pretty risque for the time.
Also in keeping with the Hays Code, the couple had to be married ("Come along, Mrs. Thornhill") before they could get into bed together and - presumably - proceed to perform that trick with the train and the tunnel...
I believe you cut out a great moment, when he's trying to escape from the hospital. He runs past some lady in a bed, , and she just says to him.."Wait...."
I was surprised that wasn't included also. It's a great few seconds. She actually says stop in a worried tone when he comes through the window, and then when she sees what he looks like she repeats stop but in a gentle welcoming way.
Not sure if you caught it, but he raises his hand to summon a bellhop in order to send a telegram to his mother just as a bellhop is paging George Kaplan. Hence the confusion.
If you go back and watch at the airport they are getting on Northwest Airlines, thus they are going North by Northwest. There was a lot of controversy about the symbolism of the ending scene of the train entering the tunnel right after they get into the bed.
I can watch Cary Grant in anything! One of my old Hollywood favorites! I second any suggestions below for other films of his (and Hitchcock's) to watch! There are tons of brilliantly written and acted films - drama, comedy, musicals - from old Hollywood (going back to the 30s). Too many to name, and it would take a lifetime to view them all ! Glad to see some young youtubers getting into older films!
A “Gibson” is a cousin to a “Martini”. 2 ounces of Gin, 1/2 ounce of Dry Vermouth…stir together with ice until cold…pour the cold spirits into a chilled Martini/Cocktail glass and garnish with 2-3 “cocktail [brined Pearl] onions” on a cocktail skewer
When she says ‘Pay the two dollars’ she means that he should shut up and just pay the fine. She doesn’t understand that he is in for a whole world of hurt.
A lot of the movie was filmed on location, which was fairly novel at the time. But the one scene that always gets me is the drunk driving one along the sheer cliffs of the seashore. I grew up in Queens, NY - Long Island is a glacier moraine and is really flat with at best gently rolling hills. NO such sheer cliffs - that is California where it was filmed. I also understand that here in the East, roads like this have much more protection via guardrails, but have no first hand knowledge on that.
Movie villains typically devise very complicated and yet novel ways to kill the hero, so the hero has a chance to get out of it. Just driving up to him on the prairie and shooting him would have been far simpler and sure-fire (pun intended).
My favorite Hitchcock movie is Rear Window with James Stewart and Grace Kelly. It is amazing what Hitchcock can do with one room and a courtyard to build suspense.
A Gibson is a martini with slits of onion. "Pay the $2 refers to a famous (at the time) comedy sketch where a man refuses to pay a fine for a minor offense and ends up on death row.
The address on the pad was “1212 North Michigan Avenue”. One of the few fake locations in the movie…Michigan Avenue [a famous street] ends at Oak Street [900 North]…and becomes “Lake Shore Drive”. I used to live a block from the famous Ambassador Hotel and “Pump Room” we had high school senior luncheons and Proms there. Very famous…
At 99 the wonderful Eva Marie Saint is still with us, and BTW Glynis Johns who played the mother in the original Mary Poppins just turned 100 and is, I think, the oldest living film actress.
The train in the tunnel!..symbolism....North by North West? No one knows...but when the Professor is talking to 'Kaplan' at the airport they are going to fly North and behind them is a sign for the Airline Company called North West, so....?
_The title North by Northwest is a subject of debate. Many have seen it[citation needed] as having been taken from a line ("I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw") in Hamlet, a work also concerned with the shifty nature of reality.[88] Hitchcock noted, in an interview with Peter Bogdanovich in 1963: "It's a fantasy. The whole film is epitomized in the title-there is no such thing as north-by-northwest on the compass."[89] ("Northwest by north", however, is one of 32 points of the compass.) Lehman states that he used a working title for the film of In a Northwesterly Direction because the film's action was to begin in New York and climax in Alaska. Then the head of the story department at MGM suggested North by Northwest, but this was still to be a working title. Other titles were considered, including The Man on Lincoln's Nose, but North by Northwest was kept because, according to Lehman, "We never did find a [better] title."[17] The Northwest Airlines reference in the film plays on the title._ _The film's plot involves a "MacGuffin"-a term popularized by Hitchcock-which is a physical object that everyone in the film is chasing, but which has no deep relationship to the plot. Late in North by Northwest, it emerges that the spies are attempting to smuggle microfilm containing government secrets out of the country. They have been trying to kill Thornhill, whom they believe to be the agent on their trail, "George Kaplan"._ _North by Northwest has been referred to as "the first James Bond film"[90] because of its splashily colorful settings, secret agents, and an elegant, daring, wisecracking leading man opposite a sinister yet strangely charming villain. The crop-duster scene inspired the helicopter chase in From Russia with Love.[91]_ _The film's final shot-that of the train speeding into a tunnel during a romantic embrace onboard-is a famous bit of self-conscious Freudian symbolism reflecting Hitchcock's mischievous sense of humor. In the book Hitchcock/Truffaut (pp. 107-108), Hitchcock called it a "phallic symbol ... probably one of the most impudent shots I ever made"._ Wikipedia
Everybody always seems to miss the detail that they're married at the end, since the Hays Code censorship rules prohibited unmarried movie couples from sharing a bed (let alone trying out that train-and-tunnel trick...).
A gibson cocktail is similar to a martini. Both drinks are made from gin and vermouth. The martini is garnished with an olive and the gibson is garnished with very small pickled baby onions.
The fine for drunken driving was not $2.00. "Just pay the two dollars" was a 1950's American slang term. It meant to just deal with the problem now and not let it escalate into an even bigger problem.
The Gibson is a mixed drink made with gin and dry vermouth, and often garnished with a pickled onion. In its modern incarnation, it is considered a cousin of the ubiquitous martini, distinguished mostly by garnishing with an onion instead of an olive. (Wikipedia)
I don't think anyone knows why the film is titled North By Northwest. There's a line from Hamlet that seems to possibly be relevant, but I don't know if it really is or not: "I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." When Hamlet said this he was feigning insanity. So it kind of makes sense for a picture in which it's hard to determine who anybody is.
Your review of this film was great! Loved all of your comments and reactions. It's one of my favorite Alfred Hitchcock's movies. I agree with your comments about the humor interjected in the film.
There are many conflicting stories about why it's called North by Northwest. I am one of those who takes it as a loose quotation from Hamlet: when he's briefly pretending to be crazy, he says (paraphrasing) that he is mad only north-by-northwest, and when the wind is from the south he is sane. So it can be taken to mean that everybody in the movie is a little bit "off."
In a 1963 interview Hitchcock said regarding the title, "It's a fantasy. The whole film is epitomized in the title - there is no such thing as north by northwest on the compass". (Wiki)
The hotel in Chicago was an actual one - The Ambassador East -, where Cary Grant often stayed, and its restaurant ‘The Pump Room’, was very famous and Hollywood celebrities often had their own reserved tables or private booths in it.
@@weebitreacts "Charade" was and is very popular. Grant co-stars with the wonderful Audrey Hepburn. Don't miss her in "Roman Holiday", "Two for the Road", "Sabrina", and others. And don't miss Grant in his last rom-com before he retired, "Father Goose". Also "I Was a Male War Bride", "The Philadelphia Story", "Notorious", "To Catch a Thief", and many another movie.
There are too many great Cary Grant movies to mention, but probably the three greatest comedies are Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, and Arsenic and Old Lace. In a more serious vein, there is Notorious (also a Hitchcock movie). Plenty of others if you want more (I'm personally fond of Only Angels Have Wings).
At the time, movie film, particularly color, was too "slow" to be used in low light conditions without blurring. Hence, night scenes were filmed at mid day and underexposed to make the scene look dark. However, the supposed moon's shadows were really strong and car headlights appear not bright enough to show beams. This is most notable in the scenes above Mt. Rushmore (which by the being, being in a National Park, do not allow private residences above the monument). But then we won't have much of a movie.
Colin has lots of insight and commonsense! Yes, that was Hitchcocks cameo! Yes, Cary grant phoned his mother! Yes, she would pay the $2 because Cary grant is handsome! On and on!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 You do also: guessed blanks!
To Catch a Thief - Cary Grant & Grace Kelly (Hitchcock); Charade - Cary Grant & Audrey Hepburn (the most Hitchcock non-Hitchcock film), The Philadelphia Story - Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart... All great movies.
Another adorable reaction. This is my favorite Hitchcock movie in the boatload he made. WWII flick FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT is my next. REAR WINDOW with Jimmy Stewart is really good. Yes, that was Hitch missing the bus. The Gibson cocktail is, in my opinion, a Martini. That confirms, for me, that Cary was James Bond, and we didn't know it. There are three more Cary/Hitchcock movies. Cary could do it all, but I think I like his comedies more than his dramas. BRINGING UP BABY, MR BLANDINGS Builds His Dream House, MONKEY BUSINESS, OPERATION PETTICOAT. I could go on, but I don't need to. You need to see more and decide for yourselves.
By the way, Hitch's 39 Steps (based on the Buchan novel), another kafkaesque film based on absurdities associated with identity mixups (set in motion by ROT paging the page when he is paging Kaplan), is set partly in "Scotland". NbyNW? Because the film takes Kaplan north up the Hudson and then NW to Chicago and Rapid City...And that is why it is a classic....Cary Grant, Archie Leach, is a Bristol lad...the case is in the jurisdiction where the cars crashed; since it is in a small town, villiage, hamlet, whatever, and in a specific type of court things move relatively fast...lift...Good to see that even the Scots mistake film drema, comedy, melodrama, etc; for real life (some might think that delusional). And that, of course, is how socialisation and ideology work, they limit imagination whether artistic, political or economic...Why would they try to toss those bloody logs? That seems so bizarre...Hardly old. Intolerance is "old"...And yes, cgi is fake; they actually did blow s%*&^ up in this era and films in this era had the wit of Wilde and Shaw rather than Gilligan's Island and Man About the House...
Thanks, Lorna! Thanks, Colin! 🛩 I got to see this one on the big screen... not in 1959, wasn't born then... but there was a revival in the late-80s/early-90s. *Alfred* *Hitchcock* is a most remarkable director. Be sure to catch REBECCA (1940), ROPE (1948), STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951), THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (1955) which is actually pretty funny and FAMILY PLOT (1976). Above all, you'll want to see PSYCHO (1960)... but be sure to also add PSYCHO II (1983) along with it. The sequel isn't directed by Hitchcock; he died a few years before... but it takes the characters to an interesting new place and people hardly ever react to it. I swear, it's worthy of your time!
35:00 You guys are funny, very fun to watch your reactions. "North by Northwest" refers to the direction they were traveling in this movie, across the United States. They started out in New York and went west at first (to Chicago) and then North (To South Dakota). My place of birth city (Niles, Michigan) is mentioned in this film, in the overhead speakers in the train station in the Chicago scenes. Also, the address he scratched out with a pencil was 1212 N. Michigan Dr. - in Chicago!
While computers existed in 1959, they were room sized and ran on vacuum tubes. There were no individual personal computers at this time, and maybe 100 or so computers sold to big corporations. Small personal computers did not exist until the 1970s.
Cary Grants accent is best described as transatlantic, part British, part American. He was born in Bristol as Archibald Leach in 1904. A journalist was fact checking a story about him and wanted to check his age, so they sent a telegram too his agent, Because telegrams were charged by the word, he kept it brief, and wrote "how old Cary Grant?" He was in his agents office when it arrived, he read it and sent one straight back "old Cary Grant fine, how you?"
I did get Colin reference and I watch because of his rugged looks. 😉I got to admit I don't understand most of what you're saying because I don't speak Scottish.
While trying to decide on Eve’s wardrobe and particularly the dress that Eve would wear during the auction sequence, rather than have a Hollywood costumer design something, Hitchcock took her shopping in the exclusive downtown stores in New York City and bought her clothing and that striking red/black dress was purchased at Bergdorf Goodman, which was a dress he knew would photograph so well in the color film stock being used.
I just found your channel and I'm so pleased I did. Collin is really good at figuring out plots, nice job Bud. What kind of ear pods are you using, I'd like to try them. Suggestion for another Hitchcock- Psycho.Based on a true story in the States. I think the two of you would really enjoy it. Keep it up and I'll keep watching!
To Catch a Thief is the best Also Indiscreet Father Goose Walk Don’t Run His Girl Friday All Cary grant movies! An incredible oldie is The Yellow Rolls Royce with Ingrid Bergman and Omar sharif. And Dr Zhivago Marnie is Hitchcock with 007 Sean Connery yummy!
There is a movie called "Reunion at Fair borough" An older movie starring Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr,and Judy Trott. Set in the U.K. about American soldiers having a reunion and it's something I think you would both enjoy.Anywayz thanks for doing what you do,and have a great day!
My friend Dorothy's father wrote the music for this film. Really tremendous score. Check out with Cary Grant in NOTORIOUS (1946) or TO CATCH A THIEF (1955) both directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Your friend is the daughter of Bernard Herrmann? Wow, that's so cool. He is one of the GOATs of movie composers for me. You ever had the chance to meet him im person?
@@mrtveye6682 no, never met her dad. He passed away in 1975, but have been listening to his music since I was about 12 years old.
That's amazing. Bernard Herrman is one of the greats.
@robertjewell9727 How COOL is that? I always loved the music in this movie!
There was an old Vaudeville routine, filmed several times, where a guy commits a small traffic violation (one is an errant traffic signal where it appears it he went through a red light). The fine is $2 but the guy decides to fight it on the principal of the thing. Matters escalate bit by bit to where he is facing life in prison, with the tag line "Just pay the $2." (Have no idea what the actual fine would have been at the time but much greater.)
Ooh that is so interesting!
@johnnehrich9601 I just learned where that "Pay the $2" came from about 2 years ago! Yet I've loved this movie for many years, I assumed that's how cheap a DUI fine was back then, but that had nothing to do with it. Your explanation is where that line in the film comes from!
@@CoopyKat Yes, for the longest time I didn't know either. However, it is true that at least in the 1930's, DUI was not considered a bit deal ("boys will be boys") and it took MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Drivers) to get society to treat it more seriously.
@@johnnehrich9601 Cars were like Tanks and the Model T may have went 45-50 miles an hour at top speed, and on an old dirt road probably more like 35, so in the 20 and 30s a guy driving drunk couldn't really hurt much.
I thought it odd that, even back then, a fine for drunk driving would be merely $2 even though $2 was worth more then it would still be a slap on the wrist for drunk driving. The Ziegfeld Follies put their own spin on this when a guy was caught spitting on the subway car. But his lawyer refuses to settle, and it spirals out of control. I didn't realize this was a reference to the Ziegfeld Follies and this bit at first.
I think you'd like The Philadelphia Story. It has Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, and Katherine Hepburn. An oldie but goodie!
That's one of my favorite "old" films. An absolute classic!
A Gibson is a Martini, but the olive is replaced with a pickled onion.
I definitely got the refrigerator joke.
Back before the internet and cell phones and all that, newspapers often had an evening edition.
The name comes from either a Hamlet quote: "I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw." or it may be that it was because Thornhill was supposed to move in that direction, during the movie. The finale was originally planned to be in Alaska.
Note the sign on the right at 25:10. They flew north (to Mount Rushmore) by Northwest Airlines.
If you want to see a younger Cary Grant in a great comedy I'd suggest His Girl Friday, directed by the great Howard Hawks. Rapid fire dialogue and moves at a breakneck pace. It holds up quite well.
@jamesscanlan6240 I just saw that about 2 months ago - VERY good and funny movie!
Great "screwball" comedy.
Mr Hitchcock always appeared in his movies 🙂 26:00 Cary Grant was a professional acrobat in his teens, looks like he was still agile in his 50's. 35:02 North by northwest was part of the instructions Eve gave Roger after she was in that phone booth at the Chicago train station. I think a lot of James Bond movies were patterned on this film.
Hitchcock was the best. Please watch more by Hitch; I recommend Rear Window, Lifeboat, and Rope.
For Cary Grant movies, I recommend Charade, Holiday, and Bringing Up Baby.
Thanks for the suggestions ❤️❤️
@@weebitreacts I would second Lifeboat (1944). It is earlier Hitchcock, but quite good. Another worthwhile comedy with Cary Grant is Topper (1937).
The movie Charade stars Audey Hepburn and Cary Grant and is called the best non-Hitchcock Hitchcock movie. Also Grant in Arsenic & Old Lace.
It`s always great to see the younger generation exploring older classic movies. I did so myself years ago & was rewarded with some wonderful films & performances, such as this. By the way, IMO, you can`t go wrong with any Cary Grant films. You might like to try (Arsenic & Old Lace) it`s a dark comedy from 1944 or the 1937 (Topper) a supernatural comedy.
Check out Cary Grant in “Holiday” (1938.) He was born in England and got his start there performing with vaudeville troupes and learning a lot of acrobatic skills. In “Holiday” he gets to show some of those! It is also a sweet and funny film, co-starting Katharine Hepburn, and deals with society towards the end of The Depression and before WW2.
Computers at the time were extremely rare, occupied entire basements, and were less powerful than today's calculators - by the long shot. In normal everyday life, rarely encountered. Use in movies or anything similar began in the 1990's - Jurassic Park was one of the first with any CGI but I bet used for editing even later. Back then they physically cut and spliced strips of film.
I was happy to see you react and enjoy this great movie. I do recommend, "To Catch A Thief" for Cary Grant and bonus: Grace Kelly!
And bonus: gorgeous locations in the south of France!!
Good catch Colin, yes, that was Alfred Hitchcock at the beginning. He was known for his cameo appearances in his own movies.
And Lorna, "Singing in the Rain" was my favorite movie when I was a kid - and gave me an excuse to play outside in the rain and jump into puddles 😉. Still love it. A great classic Hollywood musical.
Thx for the great entertaining reaction to a great movie. And can we appreciate the fantastic score by Bernard Herrmann. His works for Hitchcock are amongst the best movie scores of all time IMO.
This film and Singin' in the Rain were both made at MGM.
Singing in the Rain is such a special movie for me, that and Calamity Jane. I watched them both loads with my gran when I was young! Lorna
@@weebitreacts I have similar memories. Used to watch it with my late mom as a kid. Unfortunately back in the late 70s we had to wait for it to be on regular TV, no videorecorders or DVD players back than 😉
My second movie that brings back same kind of memories would be "My Fair Lady".
@mrtveye6682 aww my gran loves that one too! I haven't seen it though.
@@weebitreacts Don't know if that's something for a YT reaction, but you should give it a watch. The movie is pretty entertaining, and the music is great - if you are into musical stuff.
Marnie is a great Alfred Hitchcock. Didn’t you know that he would cameo in his movies? He decided that he would make it obvious and put himself in early, so that the audience could forget about looking for him and enjoy the movie.
This reaction was so much fun! Loved Colin twirling his pretend Dick Dastardly moustache!🤣 "Why would you cover for someone you don't know?" "Same reason you'd pay the 2 dollars for him"🤣😂 "And don't say guitar!!"😁 "He can only disguise half his face now!"😂 Colin was keeping up with Cary Grant, quip for quip!! And who knew Lorna was so modest around the naughty talk??☺️
Ahaha touché 😂😂😂
Thanks for watching pal! We appreciate you
@@weebitreacts Ditto!
@@weebitreacts For starters with Cary Grant films, I hope that before Christmas 2023 that you both watch and post your reaction to "THE BISHOP'S WIFE"(1947). I think you'll both really enjoy that film.
As for Scotland, you must check out "I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING" (1945), a romance film which takes place on an island in the Scottish Hebrides.
2:57 Yes, that's Alfred Hitchcock. He makes little cameos like that in all of his movies.
Cary Grant was one of the leading Hollywood stars from the 1930s up to his last movie in 1966. He was outstanding in comedy, drama, and thrillers, yet weirdly never won an Oscar. Some of his best movies are “Bringing up Baby” (screwball comedy), “Gunga Din” (adventure), “Holiday” (romance), “The Philadelphia Story” (romantic comedy-drama), “His Girl Friday” (one of the greatest romantic comedies ever), and “Notorious” (another highly regarded, Hitchcock spy-thriller)
Yes, the man trying to get on the bus at the beginning is Hitchcock. It was his Hollywood “trademark” to have a cameo in each of his films, and audiences enjoyed trying to spot him.
Most of the effects in old movies were practical, in addition to back projection, stop-motion, lens filters, etc. Hitchcock wanted to film the chase on the real Mt. Rushmore, but the Park Service refused permission, so he built meticulous sets that were somewhat smaller than scale.
The music was by Bernard Herrmann, a very famous film composer who also wrote the music for “Psycho.”
New York is North of Washington, DC, where the FBI is based, and Mt. Rushmore is Northwest of Washington.
A great Alfred Hitchcock movie: A Lady vanishes - black/white spy movie
Another great funny movie with Gary Grant is Arsenic and Lace
Definitely couldn’t have chosen 2 better exciting fun movies!
Lorna if your favorite film of all time is "Singin' in the Rain", don't EVER watch "A Clockwork Orange"😱
When I heard him singing, I immediately thought of Clockwork Orange!
@@jimglenn6972 Same here! I know Lorna is an intrepid soul but no reason she shouldn't be forewarned!☔
Is Clockwork Orange scary??
@@weebitreacts not exactly scary. The movie is about a sociopath in a dystopian world where violence is everywhere. The protagonist (if we can can him that) is out for a good time which means pummeling ordinary citizens. He also loves Beethoven.
The two goons at the start mistake him for Kaplan because he was calling for a page to contact his mother just at the moment the page was calling for Kaplan. The two baddies had obviously requested the page to call out for Kaplan because they wanted him but didn't know what he looked like. Bad luck for Roger Thornhill, but good luck for us. 😉
Awww ahaha! Definitely good luck for us
At the time, the phrase "pay the $2" was a common reference to traffic rickets. It was never meant literally.
As to the title of the movie, when Thornhill and the Professor flew from Chicago to Rapid City, South Dakota, they were flying north on Northwest Airlines.
The music is by Bernard Hermann, who at this time was Hitchcock's composer. He has a lot of brilliant scores, not the least of which are Hitchcock's "Vertigo" and "Psycho."
Cary Grant is also great in an old, old movie called "Topper." Don't let the fact that no one here has heard of it stop you. It's a fabulous comedy.
When Hitchcock was asked if there was any symbolism in this movie, he said "No.....Oh, sorry, yes, the very last shot."
"Topper" is a good suggestion. Another older film with Cary at his manic comedic best is "Arsenic and Old Lace". Later on, he was great in his pairing with Audrey Hepburn in a Hitchcockian style movie but not actually made by Hithcock called "Charade".
@@rs-ye7kw "Topper" is a fabulous movie, but there is exactly zero chance if it ever winning a poll on UA-cam because the younger people have never heard of it.
Computers were in development in 1959 but were enormous and took up entire rooms and were used only for military, scientific or technical purposes; there were none that were desktop or used for filmmaking. Special effects were “practical” - created with actual objects (like the plane explosion), with set design and/or with in-camera or film techniques.
The Hays Code was an extremely restrictive set of moral standards to ruled movies with an iron fist from the early '30's until 1968, when the current letter code rating system was implemented. Hitchcock constantly was pushing the envelope. However, in this case, Grant is told to sleep on the floor on the train, so as to not suggest anything else. The rest of the dialogue was pretty risque for the time.
Also in keeping with the Hays Code, the couple had to be married ("Come along, Mrs. Thornhill") before they could get into bed together and - presumably - proceed to perform that trick with the train and the tunnel...
I believe you cut out a great moment, when he's trying to escape from the hospital. He runs past some lady in a bed, , and she just says to him.."Wait...."
I was surprised that wasn't included also. It's a great few seconds. She actually says stop in a worried tone when he comes through the window, and then when she sees what he looks like she repeats stop but in a gentle welcoming way.
Not sure if you caught it, but he raises his hand to summon a bellhop in order to send a telegram to his mother just as a bellhop is paging George Kaplan. Hence the confusion.
Aasah I didn't pick up on that! Thank you - Lorna
If you go back and watch at the airport they are getting on Northwest Airlines, thus they are going North by Northwest. There was a lot of controversy about the symbolism of the ending scene of the train entering the tunnel right after they get into the bed.
We did catch the name of the airline but couldn't figure out the North part but we get it now. Thank you ✨️
I can watch Cary Grant in anything! One of my old Hollywood favorites! I second any suggestions below for other films of his (and Hitchcock's) to watch! There are tons of brilliantly written and acted films - drama, comedy, musicals - from old Hollywood (going back to the 30s). Too many to name, and it would take a lifetime to view them all ! Glad to see some young youtubers getting into older films!
A “Gibson” is a cousin to a “Martini”. 2 ounces of Gin, 1/2 ounce of Dry Vermouth…stir together with ice until cold…pour the cold spirits into a chilled Martini/Cocktail glass and garnish with 2-3 “cocktail [brined Pearl] onions” on a cocktail skewer
When she says ‘Pay the two dollars’ she means that he should shut up and just pay the fine. She doesn’t understand that he is in for a whole world of hurt.
A lot of the movie was filmed on location, which was fairly novel at the time. But the one scene that always gets me is the drunk driving one along the sheer cliffs of the seashore. I grew up in Queens, NY - Long Island is a glacier moraine and is really flat with at best gently rolling hills. NO such sheer cliffs - that is California where it was filmed. I also understand that here in the East, roads like this have much more protection via guardrails, but have no first hand knowledge on that.
Cary Grant was born and raised in Bristol. James Mason was a Yorkshireman. Alfred Hitchcock was a Londoner.
Movie villains typically devise very complicated and yet novel ways to kill the hero, so the hero has a chance to get out of it. Just driving up to him on the prairie and shooting him would have been far simpler and sure-fire (pun intended).
The actress in the movie is Eva Marie Saint. She is still living at 99 years of age. She is still lovely.
This is mostly a remake of The 39 Steps.....a 1935 Hitchcock film. For more Cary Grant try the comedies "Bringing Up Baby" or "Arsenic and Old Lace"
My favorite Hitchcock movie is Rear Window with James Stewart and Grace Kelly. It is amazing what Hitchcock can do with one room and a courtyard to build suspense.
A Gibson is a martini with slits of onion. "Pay the $2 refers to a famous (at the time) comedy sketch where a man refuses to pay a fine for a minor offense and ends up on death row.
The address on the pad was “1212 North Michigan Avenue”. One of the few fake locations in the movie…Michigan Avenue [a famous street] ends at Oak Street [900 North]…and becomes “Lake Shore Drive”. I used to live a block from the famous Ambassador Hotel and “Pump Room” we had high school senior luncheons and Proms there. Very famous…
At 99 the wonderful Eva Marie Saint is still with us, and BTW Glynis Johns who played the mother in the original Mary Poppins just turned 100 and is, I think, the oldest living film actress.
Oooh that's incredible
The train in the tunnel!..symbolism....North by North West? No one knows...but when the Professor is talking to 'Kaplan' at the airport they are going to fly North and behind them is a sign for the Airline Company called North West, so....?
I love the house in the end of North by Northwest, it’s totally Frank Lloyd Wright.
_The title North by Northwest is a subject of debate. Many have seen it[citation needed] as having been taken from a line ("I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw") in Hamlet, a work also concerned with the shifty nature of reality.[88] Hitchcock noted, in an interview with Peter Bogdanovich in 1963: "It's a fantasy. The whole film is epitomized in the title-there is no such thing as north-by-northwest on the compass."[89] ("Northwest by north", however, is one of 32 points of the compass.) Lehman states that he used a working title for the film of In a Northwesterly Direction because the film's action was to begin in New York and climax in Alaska. Then the head of the story department at MGM suggested North by Northwest, but this was still to be a working title. Other titles were considered, including The Man on Lincoln's Nose, but North by Northwest was kept because, according to Lehman, "We never did find a [better] title."[17] The Northwest Airlines reference in the film plays on the title._
_The film's plot involves a "MacGuffin"-a term popularized by Hitchcock-which is a physical object that everyone in the film is chasing, but which has no deep relationship to the plot. Late in North by Northwest, it emerges that the spies are attempting to smuggle microfilm containing government secrets out of the country. They have been trying to kill Thornhill, whom they believe to be the agent on their trail, "George Kaplan"._
_North by Northwest has been referred to as "the first James Bond film"[90] because of its splashily colorful settings, secret agents, and an elegant, daring, wisecracking leading man opposite a sinister yet strangely charming villain. The crop-duster scene inspired the helicopter chase in From Russia with Love.[91]_
_The film's final shot-that of the train speeding into a tunnel during a romantic embrace onboard-is a famous bit of self-conscious Freudian symbolism reflecting Hitchcock's mischievous sense of humor. In the book Hitchcock/Truffaut (pp. 107-108), Hitchcock called it a "phallic symbol ... probably one of the most impudent shots I ever made"._ Wikipedia
Everybody always seems to miss the detail that they're married at the end, since the Hays Code censorship rules prohibited unmarried movie couples from sharing a bed (let alone trying out that train-and-tunnel trick...).
A gibson cocktail is similar to a martini. Both drinks are made from gin and vermouth. The martini is garnished with an olive and the gibson is garnished with very small pickled baby onions.
Notorious is one of Hitchcock's absolute best, starring CG and Ingrid Bergman.
I lived in Chicago near the old famous “Ambassador East Hotel” - “The Pump Room” was their internationally famous bar/lounge/restaurant.
The fine for drunken driving was not $2.00. "Just pay the two dollars" was a 1950's American slang term. It meant to just deal with the problem now and not let it escalate into an even bigger problem.
The Gibson is a mixed drink made with gin and dry vermouth, and often garnished with a pickled onion. In its modern incarnation, it is considered a cousin of the ubiquitous martini, distinguished mostly by garnishing with an onion instead of an olive. (Wikipedia)
I don't think anyone knows why the film is titled North By Northwest. There's a line from Hamlet that seems to possibly be relevant, but I don't know if it really is or not: "I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." When Hamlet said this he was feigning insanity. So it kind of makes sense for a picture in which it's hard to determine who anybody is.
Your review of this film was great! Loved all of your comments and reactions. It's one of my favorite Alfred Hitchcock's movies. I agree with your comments about the humor interjected in the film.
We absolutely loved this movie. Its such a gem - glad you enjoyed the reaction!
With your accent, every time you said "alfred hitchcock" it sounded like "alfred hedgehog", and now i will always hear that 😊😂
Awww hahaha I love that! Gonna call him that now 😂
"Cary Grant" was actually Archie (Archibald) Leech, and was British with Americanized accent.
Mt. Rushmore is north and northwest of Chicago; he had to use Northwest Airlines to travel north and northwest from where they were.
Aha! This makes so much sense now!
There are many conflicting stories about why it's called North by Northwest. I am one of those who takes it as a loose quotation from Hamlet: when he's briefly pretending to be crazy, he says (paraphrasing) that he is mad only north-by-northwest, and when the wind is from the south he is sane. So it can be taken to mean that everybody in the movie is a little bit "off."
A Gibson drink is the same as a martini but garnished with an onion instead of a olive.
A picked onion? Or?
@@weebitreacts pearl onion.
A slightly lesser known Hitchcock movie I like is *TORN CURTAIN (1966),* and it stars Paul Newman & Julie Andrews
He may be drunk, but he's still Cary Grant!
Eva Marie Saint-the final lead-turned 99 in July🎩
Female lead,not final lead lol🙄🎩
In a 1963 interview Hitchcock said regarding the title, "It's a fantasy. The whole film is epitomized in the title - there is no such thing as north by northwest on the compass". (Wiki)
See the wonderful Eva Marie Saint from The Actors Studio in the movie On The Waterfront, starring Marlon Brando.
Yes that was Mr. Hitchcock at the bus. This is one of my favorite of his works. Love your reactions.
A Gibson is a martini with an onion instead if an olive.
Gene Kelly is wonderful in 3 Musketeers.
Mount Rushmore was duplicated so no harm could come to the real mount Rushmore.
Thank you so much!
@@weebitreacts Cary Grant is wonderful in To Catch a Thief with Grace Kelly.
Notorious is probably the sexiest Hitchcock film, anyway it’s just great and you aren’t going to get bored, starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman.
The hotel in Chicago was an actual one - The Ambassador East -, where Cary Grant often stayed, and its restaurant ‘The Pump Room’, was very famous and Hollywood celebrities often had their own reserved tables or private booths in it.
Computers were invented for the work place in the seventies…..in the early eighties it became very popular for use in homes…
Although it was the 90’s before they gained popularity, at least in my neck of the woods, not everyone could afford one.
Had the privilege of meeting Martin Landau once at the Redcat in L.A. He said to me, "Excuse me, but may I come through here?" Wise man...
At least half a dozen echoes of this film are to be found in the film CHARADE.
A few people have suggested Charade, is it good?
@@weebitreacts Good for me, but you never can tell. No spoilers, but think of NORTH BY NORTHWEST when you watch it. Then we'll compare notes.
@@weebitreacts "Charade" was and is very popular. Grant co-stars with the wonderful Audrey Hepburn. Don't miss her in "Roman Holiday", "Two for the Road", "Sabrina", and others. And don't miss Grant in his last rom-com before he retired, "Father Goose". Also "I Was a Male War Bride", "The Philadelphia Story", "Notorious", "To Catch a Thief", and many another movie.
There are too many great Cary Grant movies to mention, but probably the three greatest comedies are Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, and Arsenic and Old Lace. In a more serious vein, there is Notorious (also a Hitchcock movie). Plenty of others if you want more (I'm personally fond of Only Angels Have Wings).
At the time, movie film, particularly color, was too "slow" to be used in low light conditions without blurring. Hence, night scenes were filmed at mid day and underexposed to make the scene look dark. However, the supposed moon's shadows were really strong and car headlights appear not bright enough to show beams. This is most notable in the scenes above Mt. Rushmore (which by the being, being in a National Park, do not allow private residences above the monument). But then we won't have much of a movie.
Colin has lots of insight and commonsense! Yes, that was Hitchcocks cameo! Yes, Cary grant phoned his mother! Yes, she would pay the $2 because Cary grant is handsome! On and on!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You do also: guessed blanks!
They flew north from Chicago to Rapid City South Dakota on Northwest Airlines.
To Catch a Thief - Cary Grant & Grace Kelly (Hitchcock); Charade - Cary Grant & Audrey Hepburn (the most Hitchcock non-Hitchcock film), The Philadelphia Story - Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart... All great movies.
Thanks for the suggestions! 🥳
Cary Grant is the best actor ever imo. The baddie was played by James Mason, another super suave Brit actor with a mid Atlantic accent like Cary.
A good suggestion for an excellent Cary Grant film is an old black and white film called The Talk of the Town.
It was hysterical to watch Colin face when you couldn’t understand the lady was talking about sex. He was dumbfounded!
To catch a thief notorious Philadelphia story are all Gary Grant movies
Thank you for the suggestions
Another adorable reaction. This is my favorite Hitchcock movie in the boatload he made. WWII flick FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT is my next. REAR WINDOW with Jimmy Stewart is really good. Yes, that was Hitch missing the bus. The Gibson cocktail is, in my opinion, a Martini. That confirms, for me, that Cary was James Bond, and we didn't know it. There are three more Cary/Hitchcock movies. Cary could do it all, but I think I like his comedies more than his dramas. BRINGING UP BABY, MR BLANDINGS Builds His Dream House, MONKEY BUSINESS, OPERATION PETTICOAT. I could go on, but I don't need to. You need to see more and decide for yourselves.
Thanks so much for the lovely words and all the info! We appreciate you 🙏
By the way, Hitch's 39 Steps (based on the Buchan novel), another kafkaesque film based on absurdities associated with identity mixups (set in motion by ROT paging the page when he is paging Kaplan), is set partly in "Scotland". NbyNW? Because the film takes Kaplan north up the Hudson and then NW to Chicago and Rapid City...And that is why it is a classic....Cary Grant, Archie Leach, is a Bristol lad...the case is in the jurisdiction where the cars crashed; since it is in a small town, villiage, hamlet, whatever, and in a specific type of court things move relatively fast...lift...Good to see that even the Scots mistake film drema, comedy, melodrama, etc; for real life (some might think that delusional). And that, of course, is how socialisation and ideology work, they limit imagination whether artistic, political or economic...Why would they try to toss those bloody logs? That seems so bizarre...Hardly old. Intolerance is "old"...And yes, cgi is fake; they actually did blow s%*&^ up in this era and films in this era had the wit of Wilde and Shaw rather than Gilligan's Island and Man About the House...
You guys are awesome
Thank you!
No CGI in the crop duster scene. Part real and part miniatures. Can you tell which is which?
Arsenic and Old Lace - old B/W film screwball comedy with a younger Cary Grant - based on a beloved play at the time.
Thanks, Lorna! Thanks, Colin! 🛩 I got to see this one on the big screen... not in 1959, wasn't born then... but there was a revival in the late-80s/early-90s. *Alfred* *Hitchcock* is a most remarkable director. Be sure to catch REBECCA (1940), ROPE (1948), STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951), THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (1955) which is actually pretty funny and FAMILY PLOT (1976). Above all, you'll want to see PSYCHO (1960)... but be sure to also add PSYCHO II (1983) along with it. The sequel isn't directed by Hitchcock; he died a few years before... but it takes the characters to an interesting new place and people hardly ever react to it. I swear, it's worthy of your time!
Not a movie I’ve seen but defo willing to give it a watch 😮
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The kid covering his ears before the shot. An historic mistake.
Oooh we missed that! Love it though
Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn in "The Philadelphia Story" and "Bringing Up Baby" are the best.
35:00 You guys are funny, very fun to watch your reactions. "North by Northwest" refers to the direction they were traveling in this movie, across the United States. They started out in New York and went west at first (to Chicago) and then North (To South Dakota). My place of birth city (Niles, Michigan) is mentioned in this film, in the overhead speakers in the train station in the Chicago scenes. Also, the address he scratched out with a pencil was 1212 N. Michigan Dr. - in Chicago!
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While computers existed in 1959, they were room sized and ran on vacuum tubes. There were no individual personal computers at this time, and maybe 100 or so computers sold to big corporations. Small personal computers did not exist until the 1970s.
See "Rear Window".
Cary Grants accent is best described as transatlantic, part British, part American. He was born in Bristol as Archibald Leach in 1904. A journalist was fact checking a story about him and wanted to check his age, so they sent a telegram too his agent, Because telegrams were charged by the word, he kept it brief, and wrote "how old Cary Grant?" He was in his agents office when it arrived, he read it and sent one straight back "old Cary Grant fine, how you?"
I did get Colin reference and I watch because of his rugged looks. 😉I got to admit I don't understand most of what you're saying because I don't speak Scottish.
A Gibson is like a martini, but with a cocktail onion instead of an olive.
While trying to decide on Eve’s wardrobe and particularly the dress that Eve would wear during the auction sequence, rather than have a Hollywood costumer design something, Hitchcock took her shopping in the exclusive downtown stores in New York City and bought her clothing and that striking red/black dress was purchased at Bergdorf Goodman, which was a dress he knew would photograph so well in the color film stock being used.
Oooh love this!
I just found your channel and I'm so pleased I did. Collin is really good at figuring out plots, nice job Bud. What kind of ear pods are you using, I'd like to try them. Suggestion for another Hitchcock- Psycho.Based on a true story in the States. I think the two of you would really enjoy it. Keep it up and I'll keep watching!
I love how the actress who's supposed to be his mother is like 10 years older than him. 😂
A Gibson is a martini garnished with a pickled onion rather than an olive.
Wonderful review and comments on this classic Hitchcock movie.
Thank you so much
To Catch a Thief is the best
Also
Indiscreet
Father Goose
Walk Don’t Run
His Girl Friday
All Cary grant movies!
An incredible oldie is The Yellow Rolls Royce with Ingrid Bergman and Omar sharif.
And
Dr Zhivago
Marnie is Hitchcock with 007 Sean Connery yummy!
You two have a lot of chemistry. 🫣🤭🫣
Thank you 💖
There is a movie called "Reunion at Fair borough" An older movie starring Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr,and Judy Trott. Set in the U.K. about American soldiers having a reunion and it's something I think you would both enjoy.Anywayz thanks for doing what you do,and have a great day!
Definitely Hitchcock missing the bus, doing one of his famous cameos. You will find these in all of his later films, one way or another.
In the play Hamlet, Hamlet says he is but mad north-northwest.
13:00 A Gibson drink is 2 1/2 ounces gin or vodka · 1/2 ounce dry vermouth ....I had to google that!
Another favorite Hitchcock film is Vertigo.