TCM Party screens North by Northwest

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TCM screened Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest as part of its Summer Under the Stars lineup, with viewers providing threaded scene-by-scene commentary and live reactions. The 1959 thriller stars Cary Grant as advertising executive Roger Thornhill, an ordinary man mistaken for a government agent who is swept into a cross-country chase and features the famous crop-duster sequence and Hitchcock’s cameo. Several commentators singled out Grant’s mix of charm, physicality and ruthlessness in the role and debated Thornhill’s temperament versus Grant’s performance. Commenters also noted specific locations seen in the film, including the Alabama Hills outside Lone Pine, California, and mentioned an in-person 70mm screening at the Academy Museum on August 28. Hosts of the watch party were credited by viewers for bringing researched film facts and context to the discussion.

creederatx.bsky.social

@creederatx.bsky.social

If I had to name one movie that showed everything Cary Grant had in his toolbox it would be #NorthByNorthwest. Charm, wit, physicality, ruthlessness, intelligence, sophistication, passion…it’s all here. #TCMParty

2411h ago

DBjorkCA 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇸🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿11

The best James Bond we never had. #TCMParty

mikeandla.bsky.social3

This scene is the prototype for Tom Cruise

Rd bacon3

And sex, and sex, and sex, and sex (to the extent allowed by law) #NorthwestByNorthwest #tcmparty

samguy60.bsky.social

@samguy60.bsky.social

If you’re in LA on Friday, August 28 #NorthByNorthwest will be screening in 70mm at the #AcademyMuseum Alas texting comments is frowned upon #TCMParty

2111h ago

teamrickandilsa.bsky.social

@teamrickandilsa.bsky.social

Meant to post Hitchcock’s cameo earlier. But the app was being wonky. #NorthByNorthwest #TCMParty

1911h ago

Michael Campbell

@moviemikec.bsky.social

I wonder how often Spielberg and Lucas watch #GungaDin before starting Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom? #TCMParty

1710h ago

Rd bacon9

It was a HUGE influence, for better or worse. The writing team of husband and wife Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz were reputedly “India experts” and were explicitly aping #GungaDin. They were hired after Lawrence Kasdan turned it down. #tcmparty

larueart3

Many times! You understand the influence… the gong at the beginning, the comic business with the elephant , the Kai worshippers, the bridge at the end….. yup

Mary2

You would be surprised of the desert scenes in #BeauGeste #GungaDin #TCMParty #SUTS youtu.be/8BNa-mC5MnM?...

larueart1

And I forgot to mention the buddy comedy angle with a trip of friends… only instead of 3 guys, in TOD, it’s a guy, a. Woman, and a kid…

Brent Shepherd (he/him)

@shepcatzero.bsky.social

It also mirrors Roger's encounter with the farmer at Prairie Stop, Highway 41. #NorthByNorthwest #TCMParty

Top: Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) and a farmer in a brown suit and fedora stand on opposite sides of the highway, the latter awaiting the arrival of a bus, the former awaiting his fateful confrontation with a cropduster.

Bottom: Roger and Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint) stand beside an ambulance and a white convertible, respectively, seemingly the same distance apart in the frame, as they reunite and reconcile in the forest near the monument.

1210h ago

Stephanie Morrison

@stephaniemorrison.bsky.social

Thanks again for hosting Joel. I always learn something when you host! Appreciate your researching and bringing the film facts we all LOVE. #TCMParty #NXNW #NorthByNorthwest

1311h ago

Gina Dalfonzo

@ginadalfonzo.bsky.social

I know Roger is in dire straits and pretty upset about it, but he really is kind of insufferable. He's darned lucky it's Cary Grant playing him. 😄 #SUTS #TCMParty

1311h ago

Lynne Perednia

@perednia.bsky.social

Even after the crop duster attack he is so debonair. #NorthByNorthwest #TCMParty

1012h ago

Pam Newman4

Even dusty, Cary Grant is still a beautiful Cary Grant. 💕 #NorthByNorthwest #SUTS #CaryGrant #TCMParty #SummerUnderTheStars

Greg Halling1

He has his suit sponged at Eve Kendall’s hotel room in Chicago, as I recall.

Lord Byron Bunch

@lordbyronbunch.bsky.social

Of all my peak-pandemic retail-therapy purchases, this painting is the only one I don't regret. He watches over me... while wearing protective goggles. He knows what he's doing. It's been a pretty big day in this household, I'll tell you. #TCMParty #CaryGrant #SUTS

A painting of Cary Grant wearing racing or scuba goggles against a colorful but muted abstract-expressionist background.

1113h ago

NBkr2

How could you resist? Love it

Kim Britt Knits 🧶1

Please tell me it’s hanging in the bathroom.

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul1

Fabulous! And so unusual! Where in the world did you find it?

Noir Nick at Night

@noirnickatnight.bsky.social

What’s the best anyone ever looked on film? My answer is Cary Grant in NxNW #northbynorthwest #tcmparty #suts

1011h ago

Library Ang

@library-ang.bsky.social

So, you are saying I could, hypothetically, hop in my time machine, and buy that dress off the rack? #NorthByNorthwest #TCMParty

912h ago

@7295murphy.bsky.social

The 19yo is played by Robert Hutton, who was at the time of the movie, Cary Grant’s step-son as Cary was married to his mother Barbara Hutton. #DestinationTokyo #SUTS #CaryGrant #TCMParty

68h ago

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul

@celluloidsoul.bsky.social

Sigh. I've come to hate the interstitial where the hosts go on about how they address difficult portrayals because in practice THEY DON'T! We may get warned about blackface but violence against women, Native American stereotypes (their examples) or anything else? HA! What a joke! #GungaDin #TCMParty

89h ago