What is North by Northwest?
{{Infobox movie | name = North by Northwest | director = [[Alfred Hitchcock]] | producer = Alfred Hitchcock (uncredited)<br />[[Herman Coleman]] (associate) | writer = [[Ernest Lehman]] | music = [[Bernard Herrmann]] | cinematography= [[Robert Burks]] | editing = [[George Tomasini]] | starring = [[Cary Grant]],<br />[[Eva Marie Saint]],<br />[[James Mason]],<br />[[Jessie Royce Landis]],<br />[[Martin Landau]] | studio = [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | distributor = Loew's Inc. | released = July 28, 1959 | runtime = 136 | country = [[United States]] | language = English | budget = $4 million }} '''''North by Northwest''''' is a 1959 [[Espionage|spy]] [[Thriller (genre)|thriller]] [[movie]] directed by [[Alfred Hitchcock]]. [[Ernest Lehman]] wrote the script, and [[Cary Grant]] stars in the lead role. The movie also stars [[Eva Marie Saint]] and [[James Mason]].<ref>{{Citation|last=Hitchcock|first=Alfred|title=North by Northwest|date=1959-12-18|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053125/|type=Action, Adventure, Mystery|publisher=Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)|access-date=2022-07-18}}</ref> The story is about the innocent Roger Thornhill getting caught up in the spy world. [[Bernard Herrmann|Bernard Hermann]] composed the music for the movie. [[Saul Bass]] created the famous opening sequence. It was one of the first uses of [[Kinetic typography|moving text]] on screen.<ref>Johnny C. Lee, Jodi Forlizzi, and Scott E. Hudson. 2002. The kinetic typography engine: an extensible system for animating expressive text. In Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '02). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 81–90. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1145/571985.571997</nowiki></ref> The movie is often considered an Alfred Hitchcock classic and one of the best movies of all time.<ref>{{Cite web|title=AFI'S 100 YEARS…100 MOVIES — 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION|url=https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-mov