Thanks for the update; just set the DVR. I watched Vertigo in HD a few weeks ago, my favorite Hitchcock film. Truly creepy. NXNW is much more silly fun, and helped invent the spy film McGuffin. In this case, the sought after “microfilm”.
I consider “Vertigo” and “North By Northwest” the yin and yang of each other or the sour and sweet respectively in the Hitchcock film canon. That’s why they’re my top 2. A dark and tragic tale in the 1958 film and a fun, lighter adventure in the 1959 film.