Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 137 min
- Age rating
- G
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
The story
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
- new york city
- assassination
- undercover agent
- espionage
- spy
- cold war
- mistaken identity
- deception
- romance
- fugitive
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Cary Grant
Roger Thornhill
Eva Marie Saint
Eve Kendall
James Mason
Phillip Vandamm
Jessie Royce Landis
Clara Thornhill
- Leo G. Carroll — Professor
- Josephine Hutchinson — Mrs. Townsend
- Philip Ober — Lester Townsend
- Martin Landau — Leonard
- Adam Williams — Valerian
- Edward Platt — Victor Larrabee
- Robert Ellenstein — Licht
- Les Tremayne — Auctioneer
- Philip Coolidge — Dr. Cross
- Patrick McVey — Sergeant Flamm
- Edward Binns — Captain Junket
- Directed
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Written
- Ernest Lehman
Production
- Studio
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
