Eva Marie Saint and Martin Landau Discuss Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest 

It blew my mind finding out she's 96. She looks and sounds so much younger than that.

@@captsteampunk2773 98 now in three days.

Turned 99 on July 4th, 2023. What a star!

@@captsteampunk2773 She's 86 in this video. The interview is from 2010.

P.S.S. She just turned 100!

@@lnl3237 wow! Bless her heart!

@@nhmooytis7058 So glad you're still here, too! Truly a remarkable life-abundantly loved and admired by family, friends and fans.

@@lnl3237 and a true lady.

It is not only among the very best of Hitchcocks works, it is among the very best of all films. ... a magnificently well told story.

You people are so lucky being able to see these movies in a movie theatre. We in Croatia unfortunately still don't have that privilege, only occasionaly, during film festivals, but that's also somewhat narrow selection, usually without these classics. With a whole world going towards abyss I'd say that kind of movie theatres would be sort of a "cultural come back", not just for film, but for art in general.

I once saw Psycho in a theater with many screaming girls in the audience. A wild experience, nothing like watching it on TV. If you ever get the chance...

99 at this writing. Heading for century-old.

And made it!

@@gynandroidhead 👍

Wow, she looks great.

She marked her 100th birthday on July 4th, 2024.

Lucky you, indeed! I am sure you have vivid memories of the experience.

Yup! And now back again on my big screen in living room. Any Cary Grant film is awesome 😎🥰😻

poetcomic1 agreed! I used to see it at the Stanford in Palo Alto, the Twenties movie palace redone by David Packard of Hewlett-Packard fame. Even had a Wurlitzer organ!

TRUE! Wide-screen print I watched you could see the detail in the hotel lobby broadloom vs. Fox affiliate cutting ENTIRE TRAIN SCENE for commercials & 2 hr. airtime. Like Murray & The Marx Bros. on MTM.

Pls. tell @ HomeAtLast501.

So nice to hear!

They certainly did. And, Cary Grant, to state the obvious, was awesome in it, too. Sure, he was an iconic film star, but I'm not sure he gets the credit he deserves, as a pure actor.

​@@waynej2608He retired because they wouldn't let him quit playing romantic leads.

Much of it was on a set.

@@georgesenda1952 National Parks Service, or US government, wouldn't allow them to shoot on location for the monument scene. YOu'd never know it watching the film though

a combination of optical and model settings, but mostly shot in studio and not on the park itself

She made it.

How much have you had to drink?

Such a quotable film. "No they didn't give me a chaser!"

Think thin!

@@p_nk7279 in real life Cary grant had all of those !😀😀😀

The same could be said about Vertigo, although that film has more artistry than charm.

@@12classics39 I agree, and have thought that about Vertigo. Come to think of it, The Man That Knew Too Much only barely made sense. The Birds, of course, didn't need to make sense except on its fantasy level. Overall lesson: coherence is only a minor and not very essential virtue in at least some great films (Casablanca another famous case in point).

That can be said about a lot of Hitchcock's movies. Many of them have plot holes big enough to drive a mack truck through them, NBNW being one of the biggest. But we're so entertained & swept up in the story, that either we don't notice the plot holes or don't care.

@@lynnturman8157 Indeed. One of my favorites, The Man That Knew Too Much, only barely hangs together, but the drama and tension still work, in part due to the brilliant performances. Dial M For Murder, on the other hand, has a careful, intricate plot borrowed from the play it was based on, and the entire film is practically a play set almost entirely in one room. After some 30 viewings, I'm not completely certain the plot has no holes, but that's more than sufficient. A non-Hitchcockian classic, Casablanca, is notorious for the basic senselessness of the plot, without that having detracted from the dramatic effect or charm.

​@@sheilamacdougal4874 CASABLANCA DIDN'T HAVE A FINISHED SCRIPT WHEN FILMING, Bergman didn't even know which man her character ended up with.

Yes she is. Almost taking over the event. Martin Landau does well confronted with this barrage.

I felt just the opposite.

@@mikern2001 Thanks for sharing your feelings.

I think she's delightfull. Landau was engaging, and seemed fine with the interview. Imho. Of course, Osborne was the right person for these things.

@@waynej2608 And that's OK --- we need imperceptive people in the world too --- there's a place for all of us. Smiley face.