Comments on: North By Northwest (1959) Filming Locations, then and now https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/north-by-northwest-1959-filming-locations-then-and-now/ Mon, 12 May 2025 14:22:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/north-by-northwest-1959-filming-locations-then-and-now/#comment-1586104 Mon, 12 May 2025 14:22:20 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=113893#comment-1586104 Popcorn in Bed with Cassie
First Time Watching: “North by Northwest”
https://youtu.be/Cj1lGW8fotY
45:43

(She is adorable and reasonably edits them down for YouTube.)

]]> By: Jerry Greenwood https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/north-by-northwest-1959-filming-locations-then-and-now/#comment-1585924 Sun, 11 May 2025 22:28:32 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=113893#comment-1585924 Fantastic.

]]> By: sippin_bourbon https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/north-by-northwest-1959-filming-locations-then-and-now/#comment-1585861 Sun, 11 May 2025 19:31:27 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=113893#comment-1585861 Just re-watched this classic a week ago.

My progeny are steeped in such classics, but now I pause and realize this one may have been missed.

They can sing along with Laurel and Hardy and practically recite “Who’s on First”. They loved “Arsenic and Old Lace”. They anticipate the pie fight in “The Great Race”. Hitchcock should certainly be the next chapter.

]]> By: Don C. https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/north-by-northwest-1959-filming-locations-then-and-now/#comment-1585733 Sun, 11 May 2025 12:02:58 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=113893#comment-1585733 They should have included a review of the then & now newest AI-PR person, wh(o)ich retitled the movie to NXNW.

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/north-by-northwest-1959-filming-locations-then-and-now/#comment-1585587 Sat, 10 May 2025 22:15:05 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=113893#comment-1585587 Allan:

“It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World”
Filming locations, then & now.

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/its-a-mad-mad-mad-mad-world-then-now/

]]> By: Allan https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/north-by-northwest-1959-filming-locations-then-and-now/#comment-1585524 Sat, 10 May 2025 15:56:50 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=113893#comment-1585524 Too many great things to say about this 1959 Hitchcock directed classic so I won’t even try. The then-and-now comparison is an interesting idea. How things change, some more than others. Only briefly covered is the scene where Thornhill (Cary Grant) is forcibly intoxicated, excessively, and pushed into a car with no brakes to drive on a dangerous road on Long Island (actually California). The camera special affects of producing the blurry double vision is amazingly well done. What does that California road look like now?
The very last scene of the passenger train entering the tunnel is immediately preceded by the action of Thornhill lifting Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint) into the sleeping bunk of their passenger cabin on the train. The insinuation is less than subtle.
Thank you, Wayne

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