THEATER: On Broadway, Aug. 24, 1959

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North by Northwest. Alfred Hitchcock's latest cliffhanger (the cliffs are on Mount Rushmore), thoroughly entertaining and suspenseful, with Cary Grant up to his immaculate collar in spies and counterspies, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason among them.

Last Train from Gun Hill. Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn fight it out in a western shot full of sociology, child psychology and Greek tragedy, while Carolyn Jones makes the best of it all as the funny, freaky heroine.

Anatomy of a Murder. Producer-Director Otto Preminger's effective courtroom melodrama that seems less concerned with murder than...

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