North by Northwest

On the data. One film, and two sequences in it are quoted constantly. The crop duster attack has no score. Bernard Herrmann wrote music for the rest of the film and the sequence plays on engine noise and wind, which is a large part of why it is still unsettling. The National Park Service permitted filming at Mount Rushmore but objected to a chase over the faces. Much of the climax was shot on a large set built at MGM instead. The plot hinges on a secret nobody ever explains, which is exactly what Hitchcock meant by a MacGuffin, a term he popularised and used about this film specifically. Cary Grant was fifty-five and plays a man whose mother is in the film; the actress playing her was seven years younger than he was. Ernest Lehman set out to write what he called the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures, and the title means nothing in particular.

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