North By North West

Another thriller film we have watched is North By North West, a Thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. this was directed in 1959, and stars carry Grant, James Mason and Eva Mary Saint. James Mason who plays Roger Thornhill, gets Mistaken for a non existent person made up by the secret police, called George Kaplan. He is then kidnapped by 2 men and is taken to a big house in Long Island, owned by Lester Townsend. who then drug "George" and put him in a car, hoping he would crash and die... But he manages to control the car then he gets pulled over by the police and taken to the police station. The police do not believe his story so he starts to find out whats going on himself. On this mission to find out what is going on he meets Eve, a pretty blonde woman. He meets her on a train journey and ends up spending the night with her, but she has to hide him from the police as they are looking for him.

As Roger overcomes many obstacles that are trying to kill him, such as the plane trying to kill him, and being shot at on Mount Rushmore. He stall manages to stay alive and protect Eve. At the end of the film we see Roger and his new wife Eve, on a train going through a tunnel.

In North By North West, Hitchcock uses a lot of diagetic and non diagetic sounds, and the fast music creates some tension between the viewers and the characters.