"North By Northwest" Plane Scene Done First in 1932 John Wayne Serial "Shadow Of The Eagle" (video)

Alfred Hitchcock's famous biplane attack scene in "North By Northwest" (1959) has a much earlier antecedent...

...in the 1932 John Wayne serial "Shadow of the Eagle."

Two years later, "The Beast of Yucca Flats" would continue the trend.


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