Advantages: Great story, direction, screenplay, very entertaining Disadvantages: Not as original or thought-provoking as some of Hitchcock's others
NorthBy Northwest is, at number 23 on the IMDB's greatest films list, one of Alfred Hitchcock's most enduringly popular movies. Made in 1959, it stars Cary Grant as a suave advertising exec fleeing from the police after being caught in the middle of a CIA undercover operation, even though Grant was about 55 years old when it was made!
He plays Roger Thornhill, an average kind of guy, albeit with a very well paid job and his own personal secretary. He's going to the theatre with his mother in the evening, but first meeting up with some guys in a hotel for drinks.
Suddenly, with no explanation, he is kidnapped and taken to the home of Lester Townsend. Much to everyone's bafflement, they begin calling him by the name George Caplin and asking him how much he knows about their plans. What plans? Who are these people? Who is ...
Advantages: Great prose, funny and warm hearted - like your archetypal northerner Disadvantages: A little smug in places
book Maconie sets out to discover what the north of England is and what it means to those who live there.
He starts his journey in Crewe, which, after some deliberation, he decides is the "start" of the north. He does most of his travelling by train, something I must admit I admire, as I find it the most civilised mode of transport myself.
He makes a point of talking to people along the way and he manages to transplant conversations and encounters he has into words in a humorous and colourful way.
He doesn't claim to visit everywhere in the north - but he describes the rivalry between Liverpool and Manchester. He paints vivid pictures of two mighty cities, strong enough for me to end up visiting both. He describes the new town of Skelmersdale, where he worked briefly as a college lecturer and talks warmly of the people he encountered ...
Advantages: A classic Herrmann score in complete form Disadvantages: most cues extremely short
After Vertigo proved to be a flop in the box-office, Alfred Hitchcock turned his sights to the more commercially inclined comedy, Northby Northwest. Although focusing more on comedy and thrilling action instead of the more hitchcockian psychology of Vertigo and Psycho, Northby Northwest is by no means inferior to the more disturbed Hitchcock films. Starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint, the film details how a businessman Roger Thornhill (C. Grant) gets his identity mixed up with a fictional man, "George Kaplan," designed to be a Government smoke-screen to shield the real undercover agent Eve Kendall (Eva Marie sSaint). The man soon finds himself trying to survive assassins, the police and a crop-duster plane, ending up falling in love with the undercover agent as they happen to bump into each other on a train and the climactic finale ...
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Product details
EAN
9781840246704
Type
Non-Fiction
Genre
Travel
Subgenre
Continent Travel Guide
Title
Narrowboat Dreams: A Journey North by England's Waterways
Author
Steve Haywood
Release Date
08-Jul-12
ISBN
1840246707
Manufacturer's product description
At home, I'm a cantankerous old git. On the boat, after a week's cruising, I'm just a cantankerous old git with dirty hair.Steve Haywood has a problem. He doesn't know where he comes from. In the south, people think he's a northerner; in the north, they think he's from the south. Judged against global warming and the sad demise of Celebrity Big Brother, this hardly registers highly on the Richter scale of world disasters. But it's enough to worry Steve. And it's enough of an excuse for him to escape his long-suffering partner Em for a voyage of discovery along England's inland waterways.Travelling by traditional narrowboat, he heads north along two newly opened Pennine canals, a trip that takes him from Banbury in deepest Oxfordshire, through the vibrant modernity of Manchester, to the trendy affluence of Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire's answer to London's ciabatta belt. With irrepressible humour he recounts the history of the waterways and stories of his encounters with characters along the way, and attempts to define the magic that makes England's waterways so appealing.
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