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Roger Thornhill, an advertising executive, is kidnapped by an espionage organization which mistakes him for a mythical agent invented by the CIA. Considered to be the most colorful and baroque of Hitchcock's chase films, the film culminates in a spectacular showdown with the spies amidst the sculptured heads of Mount Rushmore. (Circulates), Hitchcock. Enemy agents mistake a New York City advertising executive for an American spy.

Credits

Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
Written by
Ernest Lehman
Cast
Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau, Ned Glass, Jessie Royce Landis, Bess Flowers, Lawrence Dobkin, Frank Wilcox, Leo G. Carroll, Les Tremayne, Robert Shayne, Stanley Adams, Josephine Hutchinson, Edward Binns, Ken Lynch, Malcolm Atterbury …
Produced by
Alfred Hitchcock
Cinematography
Robert Burks
Music
Bernard Herrmann
Edited by
George Tomasini
Complete catalog record
Roger Thornhill, an advertising executive, is kidnapped by an espionage organization which mistakes him for a mythical agent invented by the CIA. Considered to be the most colorful and baroque of Hitchcock's chase films, the film culminates in a spectacular showdown with the spies amidst the sculptured heads of Mount Rushmore. (Circulates)
, , Hitchcock. Enemy agents mistake a New York City advertising executive for an American spy.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, catalog record
  2. Wikidata · Q223139 ↗ — country, credits