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    North By Northwest -- (Movie Clip) Cocktail Before Dinner?

    Dialogue from Ernest Lehman's original screenplay, Cary Grant (as Thornhill) and Eva Marie Saint (as Eve) in their provocative first chat on the 20th Century Limited, in Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest, 1959.

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