Tunnel Vision: Eva Marie Saint and Cary Grant in North by Northwest

There's a wonderful exchange between Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint in Alfred Hitchcock's final golden period masterpiece, North by Northwest. It was the last time the director would work with Grant, and the only appearance by Saint – who died this month at the age of 102 – in one of his pictures, playing a version of the "cool blonde" archetype that has embedded itself in Hitchcock's legend. Grant plays Roger Thornhill, an advertising executive accused of murder and on the run thanks to a case of mistaken identity, and Saint plays Eve Kendall, the attractive young woman who...