North By NorthWest analysis

 North By NorthWest is a key film in terms of the thrillers that Alfred Hitchcock is responsible for. He made some phenomenal thrillers that were incredibly well received and are still considered the best of the 20th century, and this is one of them. The film, released in 1959, stars one of the stars of the 50's and 60's, Cary Grant. He was the star of this film and very much makes this film what it is.
 The film is set in America in the late 1950's where the focus is on an advertising executive named Roger Thornhill who is tragically mistaken for a government agent and is constantly being tracked down by foreign agents who believe he is a Mr George Caplin who is evidently wanted by many foreign agents and spies. The hunt for him generally begins when he is at a hotel looking for Mr Caplin and someone is stabbed right in front of him, so he takes the knife out of the man and holds him. A few people turn around and believe that he has murdered the man. This begins a search for him and is the catalyst for the rest of the film. There are a number of foreign agents trying to kill him because of this and throughout the film, they get incredibly close to killing him or at least getting their hands on him. Eventually, at an auction where many important people are, he causes commotion so that the police are called because he sees the foreign agents. After the police are called, he is dragged into a police car and brought in to help the police catch some of the criminals behind the murder.
 In the crop duster scene, Roger Thornhill is walking down an abandoned road that runs down the middle of acres of farmland. He is waiting for a way to get back to more familiar surroundings and sees a man waiting for a bus. He asks the man if he is Mr Caplin. Once the man has gotten on the bus, he sees a plane flying right at him, he then has a series of near misses where he tries his best to avoid being killed. The scene is known as the "crop duster" because Roger Thornhill is running away from the plane over the crops and this involves him jumping on the floor to avoid the plane and the planes wings' cut the crops into dust as they slice the top off of them.