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«North by Northwest»

North by Northwest (1959) is a suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason, and featuring Leo G. Carroll and Martin Landau. The screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, who wanted to write "the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures". The film is one of several Hitchcock movies with a film score by Bernard Herrmann and features a famous title sequence by the graphic designer Saul Bass. The movie's world premiere took place in the San Sebastian International Film Festival. North by Northwest is a tale of mistaken identity, with an innocent man pursued across America by agents of a mysterious organization who want to stop his interference in their plans to smuggle out some microfilm.

Guinea, 1991, Steve McQueen in «Papillon»

Guinea, 2010, «North by Northwest»

Mozambique, 2010, «North by Northwest»

Sierra Leone, 1997, «North by Northwest»

USA, 2002, Cary Grant, «North by Northwest»