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{{quote|'''Vandamm:''' Has anyone ever told you that you overplay your various roles rather severely, Mr. Kaplan? First, you're the outraged Madison Avenue man who claims he's been mistaken for someone else. Then you play the fugitive from justice, supposedly trying to clear his name of a crime he knows he didn't commit. And now, you play the peevish lover, stung by jealousy and betrayal. It seems to me you fellows could stand a little less training from the FBI and a little more from the Actor's Studio.
'''Roger:''' Apparently, the only performance that will satisfy you is when I play dead.
'''Vandamm:''' Your very next role. You'll be quite convincing, I assure you.
* [[Depraved Homosexual]]: Leonard is [[Ambiguously Gay|implied]] to be one.
* [[Disney Villain Death]]: Valerian and Leonard (although it's arguable Leonard was already dead from the gunshot).
* [[The Dragon]]: Leonard.
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: The Professor.
* [[Evil Brit]]: Vandamm.
* [[Evil Minions]]
* [[Exposition Cut]]: When Roger is brought up to speed, we do not hear the exposition since we already know this stuff.
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* [[Indy Ploy]]: Thornhill quickly becomes adept at making escape plans on the fly.
* [[Internal Reveal]]: The audience learns the truth about Kaplan at the end of the first act. See [[Plot-Based Voice Cancellation]] for when Thornhill finds out.
* [[Invented Individual]]: George Kaplan.
* [[It Was Here, I Swear]]
* [[Knife Nut]]: Valerian.
* [[Literary Allusion Title]]: From ''[[Hamlet]]'':
{{quote|I am but mad north-northwest; when the wind is southerly,
I know a hawk from a handsaw.
* [[MacGuffin]]: Both the microfilm and George Kaplan, since the first two acts of the movie are about Thornhill and Vandamm both looking for the nonexistent spy.
* [[Mistaken for Spies]]: The entire basis of the film.
* [[Momma's Boy]]: Thornhill, at least to the extent that it's Mother who he calls to bail him out of jail and assist him in casing "Kaplan"'s room at the Plaza.
* [[Monumental Battle]]
* [[Mr. Exposition]]: The Professor.
* [[Overly Narrow Superlative]]: "You're the smartest woman I've ever spent the night with on a train."
* [[Playing Gertrude]]: Jessie Royce Landis, who plays Thornhill's mother, was only seven years older than Cary Grant in real life.
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* [[Product Placement]]: Northwest Airlines has a sign at Midway Airport.
** Which makes for a very subtle, nonverbal [[Title Drop]]: Thornhill and the Professor fly ''north by Northwest'' from Chicago to Rapid City.
* [[Remonstrating with a Gun]]: Actually a knife, but the effect is the same. Townsend is surreptitiously stabbed in the back by one of Vandamm's henchmen as he talks with Thornhill at the UN. As he falls
* [[Shout-Out]]: Seeing Vandamm and Leonard together with Eve at the Chicago art auction leads Thornhill to comment, "Now that's a picture only [[Charles Addams]] could draw."
** In the same scene Vandamm tells Roger that with all the roles he's been playing, he could "use a little less training from the FBI and a little more from the Actor's Studio." Eva Marie Saint and Martin Landau both studied there.
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* [[Spanner in the Works]]: Thornhill screws up both plans (see below) before being incorporated into them.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To previous Hitchcock films ''[[The Thirty-Nine Steps]]'' and ''[[Sabotage]]''.
* [[Staged Shooting]]:
* [[Take My Hand]]
* [[Traitor Shot]]: Provides the page image.
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