The McGuffin

The McGuffin

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  • Genre(s): Drama, TV Movie
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): Colin Bucksey
  • Cast(s): Charles Dance, Ann Todd, Mark Rylance, Francis Matthews, Roger Lloyd Pack See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 2h
  • Similar To: 180, Scoop
  • Story:
    Paul Hatcher (Charles Dance) has a habit of spying on the neighbors across the way, something that gets him into deep trouble. Hatcher is a movie critic, and for awhile it looks like his main problem is keeping reality and the silver screen separate. But then a double murder occurs across the street after some mobsters cannot find an incriminating negative. After Hatcher discovers where the negative is hidden, he is bumped to the top on the assassins' hit list.
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STORY

Story
Paul Hatcher (Charles Dance) has a habit of spying on the neighbors across the way, something that gets him into deep trouble. Hatcher is a movie critic, and for awhile it looks like his main problem is keeping reality and the silver screen separate. But then a double murder occurs across the street after some mobsters cannot find an incriminating negative. After Hatcher discovers where the negative is hidden, he is bumped to the top on the assassins' hit list.

TRIVIA

Trivia

In his 1966 interview with director-film critic, François Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock said: It might be a Scottish name, taken from a story about two man in a train. One man says "What's that package up there in the baggage rack?" And the other answers, "O that's a McGuffin." The first one asks "What's a McGuffin?" "Well" the other man says, "Its an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands." The first man says, "But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands," and the other one answers "Well then that's no McGuffin!" A McGuffin is nothing at all. Hitchcock used the term to describe a device or plot element that catches the viewer's attention or drives the logic of the plot, especially in suspense films. According to Hitchcock, the McGuffin can be ignored as soon as it has served its purpose. Examples are the mistaken identity at the beginning of North by Northwest (1959) and the entire Janet Leigh subplot of Psycho (1960).

Last film role of Ann Todd.

This TV movie is a serio-comic homage to the films of Alfred Hitchcock, and at least three members of the cast - Ann Todd, Anna Massey and Bill Shine - had actually worked in Hitchcock films.

Last film role of Bill Shine.