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Dear Max MacGuffin rings only vague bells with me. I'll try it on the mailbase. Warm regards John ----- Original Message ----- From: RIVES <[log in to unmask]> To: John Radcliffe <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, October 17, 1999 5:56 PM Subject: Re: puzzle > I thought it might be confused with Kim, of course. > > Did you ever hear of "a Mac Guffin" ? > > Used by Alfred Hitchcock during an interview with the French cinema director > Truffaut, to caracterise a device he used to introduce a theme in a film. > And this was with reference to Kipling using the same device at times. From > my daughter who heard a retransmission of these talks on the radio the other > day. Found no mention in the journal index. The name Mac Guffin may not have > been how RK called it. Puzzle ! > > Amitis > > Max > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%