The "MacGuffin" is one of the most famous, most enduring plot devices in all cinema (so much so, AMC Theaters named their in-house bars after it). The term was created by screenwriter Angus McPhail, but it entered the pop culture consciousness via McPhail's early collaborator, Alfred Hitchcock, whose works regularly employed the device. The filmmaker […]
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