North By Northwest is one of my favorite movies, the best of Hitchcock’s “wrong man” films. It had a large impact on the later James Bond movies; it’s widely regarded as the first Bond film. Cary Grant was offered the role of Bond, and accepted on condition that it would be for one film only. The producers passed,…

Agree. It’s hard to do your best thinking at the end of a rifle barrel.

The only reason we beat the USSR to the moon was because our Germans were smarter than their Germans.