Word: dusters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opening, in which Grant gets whipped into the spy stuff before he can look askance; a black-humor elevator scene, with Grant at gunpoint as his mother pecks over his captors, "You men wouldn't be trying to kill my son, now would you?" ha-ha; the famous crop-duster scene in which a biplane machine-guns Grant; one scene in which Grant sneaks into an auction, and foils his pursuers by getting himself arrested for disorderly conduct; and the real cliff-hanger denouement on Mount Rushmore. Gasp. Eva Marie Saint is the woman, James Mason the heavy...
...Baltimore Canyon off the Jersey shore, capped the test site and wrote off the $4 million loss. Last week Shell Oil, along with eight partners, having drilled deeper (14,000 ft.) and spent more ($6 million) at a nearby site, said that it too had struck a "duster...
...Saint. But she turns out to be Mason's agent (although ultimately a double agent) and the persecution continues. Scary enough. But Hitchcock invests even more genius in a few intricately-constructed and flawlessly-carried-out chase scene: the escape from the rare antique auction, the low-flying crop-duster in the cornfield bit, and the film's finale, a rush from death across the carved faces on Mount Rushmore. Hitchcock himself jaunts onto the screen in the opening minutes, his belly pulling up to and bouncing off the closing door of a bus. He knew what a brilliant film...
...Early Duster...
...Early Duster...