The poker scenes are great. It really gets into the detail of it. The romance sub-plot is almost a non-entity. Drew is cute as, but there's just not much happening in that story. The father son battle is definitely more interesting.
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North by Northwest 1959
Wow! What a cool film. Only my second Hitchcock film, after the great Rear Window. I really enjoyed this film. Such great execution of the mistaken identity story, mixed with the thrills of a chase film.
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