Big Picture: North By Northwest (1959)
- Presented By: Tampa Theatre
- Dates: July 23, 2025
- Time: 7:30 PM
- 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL 33602
- Price: $7-$10 + taxes and fees
Tampa Theatre
Part of the Big Picture: Presenting Alfred Hitchcock film series in July.
For July, Big Picture is proud to bring you a selection of films that highlight the prolific director Alfred Hitchcock. Something new is revealed when you stand his movies up next to each other. His favorite themes and motifs gain depth. His creative development and willingness to experiment is made obvious. You can feel his fussy, finicky control over every frame grow, then strain, then dissipate. The Academy may never have committed to the idea that Alfred Hitchcock was the best director, but he was certainly one of the most directors — his body of work over more than 50 features influenced contemporary film (for better or worse) as much as any other single individual in history. We believe Big Picture is the perfect place to explore all sorts of film connections, and profiling individual artists is a nexus of one sort of connection.
FILM SYNOPSIS: 2h 16m / PG / Mystery, Thriller, Adventure
Cary Grant plays advertising exec Roger Thornhill, who has the bad luck of being mistaken for a secret agent named George Kaplan. Pursued across the United States by agents of a mysterious organization trying to prevent him from blocking their plan to smuggle microfilm full of government secrets out of the country, he must rescue his new love (Eve Marie Saint), outwit his new enemy (James Mason), and turn out to be a natural at all this high-level espionage stuff. Probably because he’s Cary Grant. Also featured in this film: Cary Grant’s gray suit, an iconic piece of menswear that deserves its own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.