Yeah, this is a guy who needs no introduction.But because we're Shmoop, we'll introduce him anyway.Alfred Hitchcock is arguably the most influential American director of all time. Certainly he's on...

Hitch's collaboration with his screenwriter for North by Northwest was much less fraught than the experience he'd just had making Vertigo. For the earlier film, he'd had to use multiple writers ove...

North by Northwest was Hitch's fiftieth flick, but his first and only with MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Studios, one of the original major Hollywood studios. The film was made toward the end of the st...

Principal photography began in August 1957, filmed in Technicolor and Vista Vision, Hitchcock's preferred widescreen format. But let's dig a little deeper here.From the first moments, NXNW is innov...

Hurry, Hurry, HerrmannBernard Herrmann, Hitchcock's go-to man for scoring, composed the music for North by Northwest. And there's no denying that he did a bang-up job. What resulted from his collab...

Since the Master of Suspense made more classics than you can count in one sitting, it makes sense that he'd have a massive and fiercely loyal cult following. And the cult's not just made up of arts...