10 Iconic Images From Alfred Hitchcock Films

7. Cary and A Crop Duster

There'll probably never be an edition of North by Northwest (1959) that doesn't have some kind of variation of Cary Grant being chased by a crop duster on the cover. It's an image both absurd but also very intense, encompassing the tone of Hitchcock's film about an advertising exec, Roger Thornhill (Grant), who's mistaken for a spy. The sequence actually inspired a similar scene in the James Bond film From Russia With Love (1963) where Bond (Sean Connery) faces off against a helicoptor.

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