One of the hold-up men escapes being captured along with the others because he had been instructed to personally deliver a suitcase filled with stolen money to the gang’s mysterious leader. (This suitcase becomes what Alfred Hitchcock used to refer to as “the MacGuffin:” the plot element that captures the viewer’s attention and drives the plot.) Carefully concealing his movements, he arrives at his destination: a barn-like building with a dimly-lit interior that contains, among other things, large papier-mache clown heads and a snarling lioness inside a cage. When he finally comes face to face with his boss, the hapless crook soon learns, to his misfortune, that the man is an expert with a circus throwing knife. |
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Circus_of_Fear #4
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By limiting his share of the robbery to this single suitcase full of stolen money, the master-criminal gives indications that his motivation for planning the caper was not financial gain but the satisfaction of knowing that his complex and brilliantly-conceived plan was successfully carried out.
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