North by Northwest

"North by Northwest" #40/55, 1959
This was kind of a funny movie. A New York executive gets mistaken for a government agent by some baddies and they hunt him down. It's funny to see Cary Grant so bewildered by all the spy stuff. And of course there is a pretty young love interest that forces him to keep up with the spy stuff.
At the end, there is this epic, though intensely unrealistic, chase scene on the top of Mount Rushmore. It really was just so fake and unrealistic, but oh well.
I liked the movie, and of course, as he does in most of his movies, Alfred Hitchcock has a nice cameo at the beginning of the movie, where he runs into the door of a bus as he is attempting to board. And I'm not quite sure why, but it really made me laugh.
Here's a video of the opening credits, and his cameo takes place at the very end, around 1:45. Ah... makes me laugh every time.
This movie is not really all that great or bad. I give it a shoulder shrug and an "eh."

The Philadelphia Story

"The Philadelphia Story", #51/44, 1940
This movie was a real struggle. I started it one night, and I couldn't handle it, so I had to stop it and started another day. The female lead was Katharine Hepburn, who played the mom in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". Apparently, she was a really big star in her day, which I didn't really know. There were a few male leads in this film, but the most noteworthy ones were Cary Grant and James Stewart. All three of these actors show up a few more times on the Top 100 movie list, and I bet that you would at least recognize  their faces. The only recap I'm going to give is to say that it's about multiple guys chasing after one girl. But, don't watch this movie. You can definitely find a better movie that's stars these people, maybe even together.