Quick, let's stop talking about it before I second guess myself and bump it further up the list. You don't get more iconic than "North by Northwest," especially with Cary Grant and those sunglasses. After receiving a degree from Harvard Law School and pursuing an unsuccessful law career, Hitchcock left the U.S. (still a somewhat new building,) Grand Central Terminal, a deadly cornfield in the middle of nowhere, a perfectly designed mid-century cantilevered glass home and, of course, the top of Mount Rushmore. George Hitchcock American, 18501913 Follow 298 Followers Bio George Hitchcock spent most of his career abroad in Holland as one of America’s leading expatriate painters. (Things got weirder a few years later when Stanley Donen took the film's star, Cary Grant, and pushed plausibility even further with the highly entertaining "Charade," the best fake-Hitchcock movie ever made.) Here Cary Grant plays a "Mad Men"-esque exec mistaken for superspy George Kaplan, but here's the twist: Kaplan doesn't exist! He's just a ruse to psych-out bad guys, but the bad guys think they are hot on his tail! The only way to find safety is to fight it out, so it's off the U.N. Well, I'm sure Hitchcock noticed it, too, so with "North by Northwest" he decided to take the formula and crank it up to eleven, making the most absurd, whacked-out "wrong man" scenario, to the point that this is almost a parody.
There have been a great number of Hitchcock films about mistaken identities and otherwise normal people thrust into dangerous situations with international repercussions.
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