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Plot. In 1958 New York City, a waiter pages George Kaplan at the Plaza Hotel's Oak Room restaurant at the request of thugs. As advertising executive Roger Thornhill summons the same waiter, he is mistaken for Kaplan, kidnapped by the thugs, and brought to the estate of Lester Townsend in Glen Cove.
George Kaplan is a fictional US secret agent in the film North by Northwest (1959), for whom Cary Grant is mistaken. The film's central conceit of an innocent man being mistaken for a fictional spy was suggested to Hitchcock in the early 1950s by journalist Otis L. Guernsey, Jr..
With Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis. A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.
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- Action, Adventure, Mystery
- Alfred Hitchcock
- 1959-12-18
Roger O. Thornhill, a twice-divorced Madison Avenue advertising executive (Cary Grant), is mistaken for "George Kaplan" when he summons a hotel bellhop who is paging Kaplan and is kidnapped by Valerian (Adam Williams) and Licht (Robert Ellenstein).
Jul 23, 2023 · Often touted as one of the greatest movies of all time, North by Northwest focuses on Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant), who gets embroiled in a web of peril and espionage when a group of spies mistakes him for a government agent named George Kaplan.
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Jan 25, 2022 · While on the run, Thornhill searches for George Kaplan, the spy he's accused of being. He ends up on a train ride to Chicago, where he meets a young blonde woman named Eve Kendall (Eva Marie...
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The boy is asking after a man named “George Kaplan,” as Thornhill calls him over to the table. The camera quickly pans to two thugs who watch this interaction, and mistake Thornhill for “George Kaplan.”
