This director's films, like "North by Northwest", often have a wrongly accused hero
It would take time for the director's formal and moral fixations to cohere as .... Like 
many of his mid-Fifties' films, To Catch a Thief finds Hitchcock working ... the open 
sightlines of North by Northwest's crop duster sequence, William ... true story of a 
New York musician falsely accused of robbery and his wife's... [DOC] [TLE] The Films of Alfred Hitchcock - by Michael E. Grost [PAR] The espionage background of these films gave all of these directors a ready 
made genre.