North By North West;

North by Northwest is a classic thriller produced by Alfred Hitchcock starring Carrie Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason. The film is a tale of mistaken identity of an innocent man, Carrie Grant, who gets caught up in organization of agents who want to stop his interference with their plans to smuggle microfilm containing government secrets.North by Northwest is a highly exciting, Fast paced, action thriller filled extreme scenes of suspece, tension a mcguffin and cliff hangers, literately as the end of the film has Eva Marie Saint literally hanging off the edge of a cliff; this final scene of the chase sequence across the faces of Mount Rushmore is an extremely exciting and tense scene and definately kept me on the edge of my seat!
A famous scene in North by North west is the crop-duster scene;
This scene is best know for it's brilliant use of tension and suspense, and is viewed as the best sequence in the film.The scene begins with a high angled, extreme wide shot, setting the scene. This infoms and gives the viewer an idea of where the action is taking place; a desseted place, where only a few cars pass occassionaly making it seem eerie. Instantly, the audience become suspicious, and gets us asking questions such as- 'Why would our protagonist meet someone at such a strange, deserted place?' This therefore makes the audince want to watch on to find out whats goin to happen next.