How we trained the cockroach in Saint Maud, Riz Ahmed and Bassam Tariq on the personal journey of Mogul Mowgli, African Apocalypse and the painful legacy of ‘Heart of Darkness’. The horizon line is not liberty for Thornhill but a subtle cage, ready for a game of cat-and-mouse. Thornhill is eventually able to escape from his captors. When a car, quite inexplicably, drives from behind a small patch of crop and drops off a man on the road’s other bus-stop, the scene is at its tensest. The man waiting for the bus has a final, eerie omen to share: that the plane is dusting where there are, in fact, no crops to dust. In his travels in evading both Townsend's people and the authorities, Thornhill gets some willing assistance from a beautiful young blonde woman he meets, industrial designer Eve Kendall, whose help is despite she knowing who he is from the newspaper reports of him being wanted for murder. An earlier scene of a lift full of people laughing at Thornhill’s mother asking if his would-be assassins want to kill her son summarises the film’s atmosphere in a microcosm. | LWLies 86: The Shirley Issue – On Sale Now! During the opening title sequence, which shows New Yorkers rushing home from work, Hitchcock just misses catching his bus. Yet something changes in the crop-duster scene. He meets Eve (Eva Marie Saint), a seeming guardian angel who turns out to be a double agent, pretending to work for Vandamm but really helping the FBI discover his method of transporting secrets passed the Iron Curtain. New York City advertising executive Roger Thornhill is kidnapped by a gang of spies led by Philip Vandamm, who believe Thornhill is C.I.A. The scene was meant to take place in northern Indiana, but was actually shot on Garces Highway (155) near the towns of Wasco and Delano, north of Bakersfield in Kern County, California. That schedule takes a turn when he is detained during a business lunch by two men he doesn't know who proceed to kidnap him. Once Hitchcock has spent several shots showing Thornhill’s vulnerability, everything becomes a potential menace; cars going past could signify Kaplan or worse. Parents Guide, At the end of an ordinary work day, advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill (. There’s an unusual patience to what becomes an incredibly slow portrayal of a fast sequence. The scene marks a shift in tone; in fact it could be from another film entirely. | Bernard Herrmann’s score, with its cascading arpeggios, has driven the film with a constant momentum. Its narrative is one of extreme coincidence and bad luck; its lead, Cary Grant, is just as confused about what is going on as the helpless character that he plays; and the film is stock full with visual innuendos, ending with perhaps the most ridiculous of a train, phallic-like, entering a tunnel.