North by Northwest - Church Lane, Leytonstone, London, UK
N 51° 34.093 E 000° 00.514
31U E 292688 N 5717257
Alfred Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone and to commemorate the life and works of this great film-maker a permanent gallery has been set-up in the underpass that forms the entrance to Leytonstone tube station. The images are all mosaics.
Waymark Code: WMM1Z3
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/05/2014
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The co-ordinates given are for the Church Lane entrance to the underpass where a stainless-steel plaque (see photos) advises of the Hitchcock Gallery. All the exhibits are mosaics.
This mosaic is entitled "North by Northwest". The plaque, at the foot of the mosaic, tells us:
North by Northwest
1959
Hitchcock's supreme chase comedy-thriller in which Cary Grant as urbane businessman Roger Thornhill. is mistaken for a spy and is pursued across the country by both enemy agents and the police. In this famous scene his life is threatened by of all things, a crop-dusting aeroplane.
"ft is only when you adopt the basic premise that Cary Grant could not possibly come to harm that the tongue in Hitchcock's cheek becomes plainly visible." - Hollis Alpert Saturday Review
This mosaic shows Roger Thornhill being chased across a field by a crop-dusting bi-plane. Blue and white coloured ceramic pieces are used for the sky with the plane being mainly red. The field is a variety of shades of green, browns and yellows with the shadow of the plane being in darker shades of those colours. Riger is wearing a green suit and white shirt with his face and hands being flesh coloured.
The mosaic is about four feet high by three feet wide.