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CLIFFHANGER

Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was Alfred Hitchcock's

North by Northwest (1959)

starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason.

It is still one of the best comedy/drama/thrillers I have ever seen.

It does not pale with time or with the number of viewings. It was still as exciting and pleasing to watch as it ever was; fresh!

The scenes at Mount Ranier and the crop dusting plane are still as scary as they were the first time, maybe more.

It is seamless.

I had forgotten the wonderful ending; an editing triumph.

You also get to watch some of Hollywood's most interesting character actors in this film. Hitchcock used the finest; the nameless artists who made the scene work with the star.

This will be a 5 out of Netflix5. Unquestionably one of the best of the best.