The BBCiplayer is listing Alfred Hitchcock’s, North by Northwest (1959) at the moment. This is one of Hitchcock’s greatest films…and well worth watching.

The story is basically a up-to-speed version of The Thirty Nine Steps (1935)… The film is nowadays famous as an early iteration of the James Bond man-about-town character. The suit, worn by Cary Grant, is probably the most famous suit in film history…The film uses architecture and styling to configure a slightly discombobulating space (Vertigo) for mistaken identity, a bit like the Matrix, but sixty years ago!

And the title sequence by Saul Bass is amazing.

I’ve posted before about Alfred Hitchcock on this blog…and elsewhere in relation to trains, and suits, and speed.

new pamphleteer blog – just search for Hitchcock and look for suits and speed…

bagdcontext blog – about trains and Hitchcock…