![]() ![]() (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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