This 1959 Albert Hitchcock movie is one of his best. Starring Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill and Eva Marie Saint as Eve Kendall this is a mistaken identity plot gone far and long.
Roger Thornhill is a ad executive who as he puts in supports a mother, two ex wives and several bartenders. As he dines one day a waiter asks for a Mr Kaplan in the room. At the same time Thornhill asks the waiter to come over prompting two gentleman to confirm in their minds that he is Kaplan.
As he goes to make a phone call he is grabbed and whisked away. Over the course of the next two hours we see a plot take Thornhill from a meeting with those who assume who they think he is, a perilous journey down a winding seaside road, The United Nations, a ticketless train trip, an art auction in Chicago and ends at Mt Rushmore. This is truly a seat of your pants movie.
Grant is superb, playing a nonplussed ad exec thrust into the role of superspy caught between both the good guys and the bad guys with a romance adding to the mix.
in Hitchcock's cameo in this movie he portrays a man who misses the bus in the opening credits. He did not miss the bus on this movie. Four stars.
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