The Pollitt family has begun to gather to celebrate he sixty-fifth birthday of the domineering Mississippi plantation owner and patriarch, Big Daddy Pollitt (Burl Ives).Relieved by the surprise admission, Brandt shook Hunt""s hand ("We""re good") and accepted the new mission.And that""s just for openers.We got the fattest piers in the fattest harbor in he world.Everything moves in and out - we take our cut...You don""t suppose I can afford to be boxed out of a deal like this, do ya? A deal I sweated and bled for, on account of one lousy little cheese-eater, that Doyle bum, who thinks he can go squealin"" to he Crime Commission? Do ya? (pause) Well, DO YA?Terry is given "a present from your Uncle Johnny," a fifty-dollar bill, and then promised a prime work area at the docks at the next morning""s shape-up: "Put Terry up in the loft.He was assigned to personally protect Senator Amidala - and escort her back to her home planet of Naboo.The allusion to traveling ""North"" by Northwest (airlines) seems to be the most probable explanation for he film""s title.