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A video essential strong candidate for the most purely entertaining and enjoyable film ever made by a Hollywood studio (with Citizen Kane, Only Angels Wings and Trouble in Paradise running neck and neck). Located between the heavier and more profoundly disturbing Vertigo (1958) and the strong horror of Psycho (1960), north from the north-west (1959) Alfred Hitchcock is at his most effervescent in a romantic comedy, thriller, which also has a Cary Grant of the final performance. This does not mean that it is just "Hitchcock Lite"; seminal speech Hitchcock Robin Wood (in his book Hitchcock's Films Revisited) makes this a brilliant waterproof MGM production as one of the masters of the "unbroken series of masterpieces Vertigo Marnie labor. 'It is a classic Hitchcock Wrong Man scenario: Grant is Roger O. Thornhill (initials ROT), an advertising executive is mistaken by enemy spies in the United States for an agent named George Kaplan. Convinced these sinister…
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