North by Northwest turns 63

“I’ve got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives, and several bartenders who depend on me, and I don’t intend to disappoint them by getting myself slightly killed.”

Or something to that effect. One of my favorite Cary Grant lines in the movie.

The other one is: “These two men poured a whole bottle of bourbon into me. No, they didn’t give me a chaser.”

It exudes post WWII Madison Ave.

Also, James Mason’s Vandamm: “That’s not very sporting of you, using real bullets.”

It helps to have the perfect actors saying the great the lines.

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