North by Northwest

In 1958, thugs in a New York City hotel bar hear a waiter paging George Kaplan. When advertising executive Roger Thornhill summons the same waiter, he is mistaken for Kaplan, kidnapped, and brought to the estate of Lester Townsend. He is interrogated by spy Phillip Vandamm, a Cold War enemy of the United States. Vandamm arranges Thornhill's death in a staged drunken driving accident. Thornhill survives, only to be arrested for driving under the influence. Thornhill fails to convince his mother and the police of what happened. Police take him to Townsend's home, where a woman says he showed up drunk to her dinner party. She also says that Townsend is a United Nations diplomat.