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MacGuffin - Film.
One particularly famous early movie example of a MacGuffin is the titular statuette in The Maltese Falcon.
Roger Ebert defines the term in his commentary track for Casablanca, where he points out that the "letters of transit"[2] in the film are a MacGuffin.
Roman Polanski's 1974 neo-noir classic, Chinatown uses a MacGuffin in the form of the fake Mrs. Mulwray who drives the plot but ultimately bears little influence in the grand scheme of things.
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The uranium hidden in wine bottles in Notorious is a MacGuffin: it is the reason the story takes place, serving to advance the plot. The story could just as easily have used diamonds (which were proposed as an alternative during production [1]), gold or rare wine.
One of Hitchcock's most memorable MacGuffins is the one used in North by Northwest. In this movie, the MacGuffin is the unspecified secret information known by a man for whom Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is mistaken. Thornhill spends the course of the movie try ...
