Hitchcock's North By Northwest: The Birth of the Modern Action Film

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This begins the first of the film's many action sequences. Thornhill's car, hanging off a cliff realigns itself with the road and Thornhill, intoxicated, swerves all over the road, attempting to avoid the two men chasing him. Endangering the lives of others and his own, Thornhill escapes the two men following him, but causes an accident with a police cruiser...
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He is brought into the police station for DWI. At the police station, a man asks to smell Thornhill's breath. "You better stand back," he warns. The following day in court Thornhill tells his story of being kidnapped, only no one believes him. When Thornhill leads police to the house where he was held captive, there is a woman there claiming that Thornhill attended a party the previous evening and was "a bit tipsy" when he left...
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