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Looking for a movie title that I believed was a Hitchcock, but I cannot identify it.

Keys: Unwitting person involved in spying, under hypnosis the sound of people laughing is really birds on Atlantic flyway, ending has air boats in the Everglades

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Good Day!
       I apologise for the delay in answering!!!!
      I believe that the film you are thinking of is "North By Northwest", however part of your description sounds like "Spellbound". In NBNW, Carey Grant is mistaken for a spy and chased across the country (the most famous scene being, of course, Carey Grant running through a cornfield being chased by a crop-duster.) I think that this is most likely what ypu're looking for though it has been so long since I have seen it I can't remember the ending.
     "Spellbound" concerns a man that thinks he is a murderer but can't remember and he keeps having dreams about it. Ingrid Bergman plays a psychologist who is trying to help him. I think he may have been hypnotised in the course of that film, but again, it has been so long...

I did some research and these were the closest I could find to the description online as well. If neither of these films is what you're looking for, please let me know and I would be happy to do some more research!

I hope that this is helpful!

                          Cheers!
                                              ~J.

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Juli D.

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I can answer almost any question relating to any of the Marx Brothers or their films. Their personal lives were, I believe, twice as interesting as their professional personas.

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I have read many books on the subject including the memoirs of the two most famous Marx Brothers, Groucho and Harpo as well as "Growing up with Chico" the only book written expressly about Chico Marx. Also, I have done exstensive research on all of the brothers, my senior paper being on the subject of their lives.

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The International Library Of Poetry's Anthology series. (I have three poems published)

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The International Library Of Poetry's Editor's Choice Award.

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