It also boasts a strong cast, with Routh and Bosworth's relative inexperience balanced by the seasoned likes of Frank Langella and Eva Marie Saint.

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In turn, Vertigo's love theme makes a poignant return in North by Northwest, as does the vertigo chord when Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint have their turn clutching Hitchcock's precipice.

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If that sounds sort of familiar, that's hardly a surprise: At times, this storyline seems to be a combination of James Bond-meets-Alfred Hitchcock in "North By Northwest, " (1959) with Newton playing the role portrayed by Eva Marie Saint in the Hitchcock film.

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