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This combination photo shows Cary Grant at the 30th Academy Awards ceremony on March 26, 1958, left, and Eva Marie Saint at the Academy Awards on April 17, 1961. Grant and Saint star in the Hitchcock thriller "North by Northwest." (AP Photo)

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When many were rushing to rewatch "Contagion," the eerily prophetic 2011 Steven Soderbergh film about the outbreak of an easily transmitted virus, I was searching for more comforting escapes. I reached for "North by Northwest" the way a baby grasps for a pacifier.

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer May 16, 2020