User blog:ARTaylor/60 Years of North by Northwest

Today marks the sixtieth anniversary of the premiere of North by Northwest. The film is the forty-eighth from famed director Alfred Hitchcock. It follows an advertising executive who suffers a case of mistaken identity and is drawn into an international conspiracy concerning the sale of government secrets.

The film was a hit at the box office and received near-universal critical praise. It was nominated for three Academy Awards and is preserved by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." It has since become considered one of the greatest films ever made. The crop duster attack and climax on Mount Rushmore have been referenced numerous times in popular culture.

The film features the talents of Martin Landau as henchman Leonard.