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PATRICK MARMION reviews North By Northwest and Alfred Hitchcock Presents - The Musical: Only one show has ingenuity, style and wit in this Hitchcock double bill
Alfred Hitchcock is suddenly flavour of the month. But his 1959 classic North By Northwest really ought to be unstageable.
With a smile drier than a vodka martini, he oozes cucumber insouciance: hands deep in pockets as if idling at a bus stop... which is exactly what he does, by a cornfield, until he gets dive-bombed by a bi-plane (btw Gen Z, that’s not a category of gender orientation). Patrycja Kujawska is perhaps more Ingrid Bergman than Eva Marie Saint as the alluring ice maiden who saves his skin; while Karl Queensborough makes light work of James Mason’s chilly villain in pursuit of Thornhill. Forget plot, tension or character development, this is a meandering series of loosely-linked vignettes, featuring acres of ample décolletage to illustrate how actresses were treated as sex objects with a limited sell-by date.
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