NORTH BY NORTHWEST ∙ ERNEST LEHMAN

NORTH BY NORTHWEST • Ernest Lehman • 1999 [1959] Faber and Faber 196 pgs • Sight and Sound Script • Introduction by Andrew Sinclair • Main Characters; Credits; Cast & Script • Film made in 1959, directed by Alfred Hitchcock • Hitchcock’s best-loved romantic thriller is one of the most influential works ever made in the genre – an enticing cocktail of suspense, comedy, eroticism and danger. Roger Thornhill is a suave but stiff-necked Madison Avenue executive, who finds himself mistaken for a US intelligence agent, and dragged into life-threatening escapades. His consolation is that he gets to romance an elegant female spy, but he soon learns that the game of international intrigue is played for high stakes. Ernest Lehman provides an introduction to this souvenir volume, published to coincide with the centenary of Hitchcock’s birth, in which he describes the course of his cherishable collaboration with the master of suspense • PVP 10,71€• Linha de Sombra • www.linhadesombra.com • Cinemateca Portuguesa ■

“Wouldn’t it be nice if my problems and your plans were somehow… connected? Then we could stay close to each from here on in and not have to go off in separate directions Togetherness. Know what I mean?”

ROGER TORNHILL, Cary Gant

“Hitchcock’s point of view sequences are seminal in the development of the language of cinema, and the cropdusting sequence from NORTH BY NORTHWEST is the most brilliant of these. Cary Grant near fatal encounter with a biplane is still unsurpassed as the greatest action sequence ever.”

John Carpenter