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The Double McGuffin

  • 19791979
  • PGPG
  • 1h 41m
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6.5/10
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"The Double McGuffin" (Saul Bass Poster) 1979
MysteryFamily
Some school kids stumble across a briefcase full of money, when they go back for it, they find a body instead. When they bring the police, neither is there, and the police refuse to believe ... Read allSome school kids stumble across a briefcase full of money, when they go back for it, they find a body instead. When they bring the police, neither is there, and the police refuse to believe them. Later they discover both were part of an assassination plot. Now they have to figure... Read allSome school kids stumble across a briefcase full of money, when they go back for it, they find a body instead. When they bring the police, neither is there, and the police refuse to believe them. Later they discover both were part of an assassination plot. Now they have to figure out how to stop the plot and put the bad guys in jail.
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    • Joe Camp
    • Richard Baker(story)
    • Joe Camp(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Dion Pride
    • Greg Hodges
    • Jeff Nicholson
    • Joe Camp
    • Richard Baker(story)
    • Joe Camp(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Dion Pride
    • Greg Hodges
    • Jeff Nicholson
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    • 9User reviews
    • 6Critic reviews
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    Dion Pride
    Dion Pride
    • Specks
    Greg Hodges
    • Homer
    Jeff Nicholson
    Jeff Nicholson
    • Billy Ray
    Vincent Spano
    Vincent Spano
    • Foster
    • (as Vinnie Spano)
    Elke Sommer
    Elke Sommer
    • Madame Kura
    Lori Lively
    Lori Lively
    • Michelle Carter
    • (as Lori Lynn Lively)
    George Kennedy
    George Kennedy
    • Chief Talasek (Tally)
    Lisa Whelchel
    Lisa Whelchel
    • Jody
    Ernest Borgnine
    Ernest Borgnine
    • Mr. Firat
    Garvin Edwards
    • Football Player
    Anne Reailly
    • Cocktail Waitress
    Rod Browning
    • Moras
    Ed 'Too Tall' Jones
    • Assassin #1
    Orson Welles
    Orson Welles
    • Narrator
    • (voice)
    Lyle Alzado
    Lyle Alzado
    • Assassin #2
    Mike Davis
    • Newlyweds
    • (as Mike and Peggy Davis)
    Peggy Davis
    • Newlyweds
    • (as Mike and Peggy Davis)
    Michael Gerard
    • Arthur
      • Joe Camp
      • Richard Baker(story)
      • Joe Camp(screenplay) (story)
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    • Trivia
      "McGuffin" is a Hollywood term for an item which a majority of the plot centers around the characters trying to find and/or protect, but which has minor significance to the plot itself (the Holy Grail in Indiana Jones ja viimeinen ristiretki (1989)). Hence, the money and the body which are found and lost at the beginning of this film, are the title's "Double McGuffin".
    • Goofs
      When Arthur Honeycutt enters Specks' dorm room, Specks offers him a Coors beer. Prior to 1981 (the film is from 1979), Coors beer was available only in eleven Western states - not in Virginia, where the film is set.
    • Quotes

      Narrator: [opening narration] A "McGuffin" is a term coined by the world's foremost teller of suspense stories to label that secret, elusive, mysterious something that everyone in the story is trying to find or find out about. It is, in effect, the pretext of the plot; the catalyst that brings the characters together and causes them to act or interact - the vial of microfilm, the money, the missing papers, the murderer, the motive, the single reason that causes the entire story to happen. Usually, there's only one.

    • Connections
      Featured in Macon County Movie Club: Family Film Night (2021)
    • Soundtracks
      Live (For Today)
      Music by Euel Box
      Lyrics by Joe Camp
      Performed by Dion Pride

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    Gadgets!?!
    It's been years since I saw this movie, but as a kid I loved it. Does anyone else remember the cool gadgets those kids had and how everything in their room was hidden? If I remember, there was a TV underneath the pop up tray of a footlocker, a radio hidden in the bookcase and a dartboard hidden behind a painting. There are probably more, but these are the few I remember. Anyone else? Also, one of the kids DID read Playboy and let me tell you, kids that age will stare at a Playboy for hours in great interest if there is no parental/adult presence! I'll have to rent this movie and watch it again, but I do remember George Kennedy being in it, so it can't be that bad. Can it?
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    • Jul 26, 2005

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    • Release date
      • June 8, 1979 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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      • Savannah, Georgia, USA
    • Production company
      • Mulberry Square Productions
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    • 1 hour 41 minutes
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