North by Northwest New trailer North by Northwest is a 1959 American spy thriller film, produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason. The screenplay was by Ernest Lehman, who wanted to write "the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures". North by Northwest is a tale of mistaken identity, with an innocent man pursued across the United States by agents of a mysterious organization trying to prevent him from blocking their plan to smuggl

We're saluting actor James Mason, who was born on this day, with our daytime programming. LINEUP: LOLITA ('62) at 9:45am ET ODD MAN OUT ('47) at 12:30pm ET A STAR IS BORN ('54) at 2:30pm ET NORTH BY NORTHWEST ('59) at 5:30pm ET | Turner Classic Movies: TCM