North by Northwest's most celebrated—and sneakiest—symbol appears at the very end of the film, when the train becomes an enormous phallic symbol, as Hitch himself declared (source). The train e...

At the auction in Chicago, Vandamm and his men bid on and buy a small Pre-Columbian statue, called a "Tarascan warrior" in the screenplay. Later we learn that the harmless-looking little guy's fill...

Eve.Hmmm…where have we heard that name before? Oh yeah, she had this friend Adam way back in the beginning…Does Eve Kendall have any resemblance to the original gal? Well, she's Thornhill's hel...

While running all over the country trying to save his own life, Thornhill finds himself in some very high-profile places: The United NationsThe Plaza Hotel, The Twentieth Century trainMount Rushmor...

When Eve sees Roger Thornhill's initials—ROT—on his matchbook (who puts his initials on a matchbook?), she asks him what the "O" stands for. "Nothing," he answers. Cinema lore explains this as...

What's a more primal human fear than falling? It keeps us from doing stupid stuff. Heck, even babies know better than to crawl off a cliff. Hitchcock knew that fear and used it in a number of his f...

Hitchcock started his movie career in silent films, where pictures had to tell the story. He thought that something was lost in cinematic technique when sound arrived to films, and he said he used...

Hitchcock loved this trope. Take a guy who we all kind of like and set him up for a crime he seriously wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole. Then set everyone—and we do mean everyone—against him...