Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill, protagonist in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959 ... "I want to have one scene of a man hanging onto Lincoln's eyebrows. That's all the picture I have ...

The lack of room to stage a movie scene turned out to be irrelevant. In an after-dinner speech, Hitchcock told the story of how he tried to get permission to film: "In North by Northwest during ...

The second James Bond movie, From Russia With Love, has a scene that is directly inspired by the helicopter chase in North by ...