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Rediscover the very special atmosphere of Alfred Hitchcock thanks to this superb La Mort Aux Trousses Poster which will give you chills!
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Description of this Death to Trousses Poster
La Mort Aux Trousses is a 1959 American spy film, produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason. The screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, who wanted to write "the Hitchcock film to end all Hitchcock films".
La Mort Aux Trousses is a story of mistaken identity, with an innocent man pursued across the United States by agents of a mysterious organization who try to prevent him from blocking their plan to smuggle people out of the country. microfilms containing government secrets. It is one of several Hitchcock films that feature a score by Bernard Herrmann and an opening title sequence performed by graphic designer Saul Bass, and it is the first to make extended use of the kinetic typography in its credits.
La Mort Aux Trousses is one of Hitchcock's canonical films of the 1950s and is often cited among the greatest films of all time. It was selected in 1995 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" After its first screening, reviewers in The New Yorker and The New York Times immediately hailed it as a masterpiece of comic and sophisticated self-parody.
In 1958, in a New York hotel bar, a waiter calls out "George Kaplan" after a pair of thugs ask him to do so. While advertising executive Roger Thornhill calls the same server, he is mistaken for Kaplan, kidnapped by the thugs and taken to Lester Townsend's property. He is interrogated by spy Phillip Vandamm, an enemy of the United States during the Cold War, who poses as Townsend to Thornhill. Vandamm arranges Thornhill's death in a staged drunken car accident. Thornhill survives, but is unable to convince his mother and the police of what happened, even after visiting Townsend's estate. During this visit, Thornhill learns that Townsend is a United Nations diplomat.
Thornhill and his mother go to Kaplan's empty hotel room. After Thornhill answers Kaplan's phone, the thugs, who had called the number from the lobby, give chase. Thornhill goes to the United Nations General Assembly building to meet Townsend, who is a different man from Vandamm. One of the pursuers throws a knife, killing Townsend, who collapses in Thornhill's arms. Thornhill is photographed grabbing the knife, making it appear as if he is the murderer; he then runs away, trying to find the real Kaplan. An unnamed government intelligence agency realizes that Thornhill has been mistaken for Kaplan, but decides not to rescue him for fear of compromising their operation: Kaplan is a nonexistent agent they created to confuse and distract Vandamm.
Thornhill boards the 20th Century Limited train to Chicago, where he meets Eve Kendall, who hides him from the police. They establish a relationship - on Kendall's part because she is secretly working with Vandamm - and she announces to Thornhill that she has arranged to meet Kaplan at a remote rural bus stop. Thornhill waits there but is attacked by a crop duster plane. After trying to hide in a cornfield, he steps in front of a speeding tanker truck; he brakes and the plane crashes on him, which allows him to escape.
Thornhill arrives at Kaplan's Chicago hotel and learns that Kaplan had checked out before the time Kendall claimed to have spoken to him. Thornhill goes to her room and confronts her, but she leaves. He follows her to an art auction, where he finds Vandamm purchasing a Mexican Purépecha statue. Vandamm leaves his henchmen to deal with Thornhill; to escape, Thornhill disrupts the auction until the police are called to remove him. He claims to be the fugitive murderer, but they turn him over to the head of the government agency, "The Professor", who reveals that Kaplan was made up to distract Vandamm from the real government agent: Eve Kendall. Thornhill agrees to help maintain his cover.
At the Mount Rushmore Visitor Center, Thornhill - now happily playing the role of Kaplan - negotiates Vandamm's turnover so that Kendall will be arrested. Kendall then shoots Thornhill, apparently fatally, and flees; It turns out his gun was loaded with blanks. Afterwards, the professor arranges a meeting between Thornhill and Kendall. Thornhill learns that Kendall has to go on a plane with Vandamm and his henchman Leonard. He tries to dissuade her from leaving but is knocked unconscious and locked in a hospital room. Thornhill escapes the professor's custody and goes to Vandamm's house to save Kendall.
In the house, Thornhill hears that the sculpture contains microfilm and that Leonard discovered the remaining blank bullets in Kendall's gun. Vandamm says he is going to kill Kendall by throwing her out of the plane. Thornhill manages to warn her with a surreptitious note. Vandamm, Leonard and Kendall head to the plane. As Vandamm boards, Kendall takes the sculpture and runs towards Thornhill who pursues them. They flee to the top of Mount Rushmore. As they descend the mountain, they are pursued by Vandamm's henchmen, including Leonard, who is shot and killed by a ranger. Vandamm is stopped by the professor.
Meanwhile, Kendall is holding on to the mountain with her fingertips. Thornhill bends down to lift her up, and the scene cuts in two: he pulls her - now the new Mrs. Thornhill - into the upper bunk of a train entering a tunnel.
