Can anyone identify this typeface used in Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 thriller, "North By Northwest"?
Typophile
NORTH BY NORTHWEST typeface
I would say some obviously pre-digital version of Franklin Gothic condensed. See, for example, here: http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/tilde/frank-goth/
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