Hi everybody,
This is a question for all Hitchcock/Fritz Lang experts. You all remember
that extended and gruesome scene in TORN CURTAIN (1966) where the Paul
Newman character, aided by a woman, has to kill the East German agent
(Wolfgang Kieling) in the farm without anyone outside noticing. Well,
recently I watched Lang's thriller CLOAK AND DAGGER (1946), and besides the
similarities in plot between the two films, in the Lang film there is a -
considering the strictures of the Production Code - remarkably violent and
brutal scene set in 1945 Italy in which the protagonist (Gary Cooper) is
engaged in a fight for life or death with an fascist, and is also aided by a
female character in silently killing his opponent. This scene is strikingly
similar to the famous farmhouse killing scene in Hitchcock's film. Is it
possible that Hitch "stole" it from Lang?
Henry
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