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Tim Simpson
Two spies are travelling on an English train and one says to the other,'What's that in the baggage rack over your head?'. 'Oh,' he says 'that's a MacGuffin'. The first one asks,'Well, what's a MacGuffin?'. 'It's an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands'. So the other says,'But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands'. And he answers, 'Then that's no MacGuffin'. Alfred Hitchcock, interviewed in 1966 by Francois Truffaut 
Suspenseful Objects #1 Short animated film |