Directed by Brit.......A. Hitchcock........starring American Cary Grant.......involving the UN.......in NYC..................the Black hills................sacred Sioux country........Mt. Rushmore..........a plane in Iowa..........watch Link laugh Eddie in Des Moines..........in the 1st floor exhibit on early aviation.......

Advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) is mistaken for “George Kaplan”, and is kidnapped by Valerian (Adam Williams) and Licht (Robert Ellenstein). The two take him to the house of Lester Townsend on Long Island. There he is interrogated by a man he assumes to be Townsend, but who is actually foreign spy Phillip Vandamm (James Mason). Vandamm orders his right-hand man Leonard (Martin Landau) to get rid of Thornhill. Thornhill is forced to drink bourbon, but manages to escape a staged driving accident. He is unable to get the police, a judge, or even his mother (Jessie Royce Landis) to believe what happened, especially when a woman at Townsend’s residence says he got drunk at her dinner party; she also remarks that Lester Townsend is a United Nations diplomat. Thornhill and his mother go to Kaplan’s hotel room. While there, Thornhill answers the phone; it is one of Vandamm’s henchmen. Narrowly avoiding recapture, he goes to the U.N. General Assembly building, where Townsend is due to deliver a speech. Thornhill meets Townsend and is surprised to find that the diplomat is not his interrogator. Valerian throws a knife which hits Townsend in the back. He falls dead into Thornhill’s arms. Without thinking, Thornhill removes the knife, making it appear that he is the killer. He is forced to flee.