North by Northwest: Phillip Vandamm (James Mason)

Comments for death : North by Northwest: Phillip Vandamm (James Mason).

But it WAS a tree, right? shouldn't you have an object?

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[bgcolor=blue][/bgcolor] Well I'm not sure, Alls I saw was him falling and not getting impaled on that tree.

Excuse me, but this is COMPLETELY WRONG. It´s Leonard (Martin Landau), who falls to death - we never see, if he´s impaled or whatever. Vandamm, however, is not killed at all - he is caught by the police!

Can anyone confirm if this death is wrong? I've never seen the film.

Totally wrong! Leonard falls to his death (no indication whatsoever that he gets impaled on a tree) and Van Dam wrlyy comments to the Professor and the Rangers who have arrested him that it was unsporting to have used real bullets!

And may I apologise for my own mispelling of Vandamm above?! I had a Jean-Claude moment!

Well my good sir, if Vandamm didn't get killed by Thornhill at the end, who did?

Some guy named Leonard did, according to Rob.

sorry to intrude, but if you want to know who fell after fighting with Grant, it was some nameless henchman who was dogging Grant from the beginning
Leonard also fell, but only after being shot by rangers for stepping on Eva Marie Saint's fingerhold
hope this clears things up