When it came time to speak about Hitchcock's 1959 movie North by Northwest starring Cary Grant, Martin Landau, James Mason, and Eva Marie Saint, del Toro declared: "North by Northwest, 1959 by ...
But his 1959 classic North By Northwest really ought to be unstageable ... Damian Humbley plays a pocket-sized movie director, two-timing his wife with Nicola Hughes's man-eating jazz diva.