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Classic Films

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1. The director of "Sweet Smell of Success" was my teacher in film school...

Reply to CBHagman (Original post)

Sun May 28, 2023, 11:17 PM

May 2023

According to what Lehman told him, he came up with the entire plot to “North by Northwest” simply on Hitchcock’s instruction to “write me a movie that ends with a chase scene on Mount Rushmore.”

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The director of "Sweet Smell of Success" was my teacher in film school... regnaD kciN May 2023 #1