“[Cary] Grant was among the most ironic of the great actors of Golden Age Hollywood. There was

“[Cary] Grant was among the most ironic of the great actors of Golden Age Hollywood. There was almost invariably a wink and a sly nod in his signature performances that let audiences know that he was in on the joke, that no matter what was happening to him onscreen, he never took it too seriously. So even though Grant’s advertising agent Roger Thornhill spends North By Northwest literally running for his life across a series of picturesque tableaus, most notably Mount Rushmore, he never really seems to be in much danger. He’s never so terrified that he can’t drop the perfect bon mot or flirt outrageously with Eva Marie Saint’s Eve Kendall. The whole ‘running for your life’ thing even seems to strike him as a bit of a laugh, a way to liven up an otherwise dull stretch of living.”Every week, Nathan Rabin revisits a film on the IMDB Top 250 to determine whether its ranking there is too low, too high, or just right. This week, he looks at No. 63, North By Northwest, one of Alfred Hitchcock’s lightest—and best—films. [Read more…] -- source link

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