Talk:The Prize (1963 film)

Stub to start
The article only needs a cast section to upgrade to start class. Once it's added, change the class to start. --Nehrams2020 07:33, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:50, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Cast
Isn't listing the entire cast a bit excessive?--213.191.70.184 (talk) 02:58, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Influences and similarities
I have moved this entire section here because it appears to be pure original research. The film has an overall Hitchcock-esque mood, bearing a few similarities to 1959's North by Northwest (1959) and 1940's Foreign Correspondent in its use of mistaken identity and the idea of a distinguished professor being impersonated by a double. The scene on the bridge and in the nudist club in The Prize are most often mentioned. The Prize has further, troubling similarities to Hitchcock's earlier Foreign Correspondent, many of them identical to the similarities that it has to North by Northwest, in particular: (1) the hero's summoning of the police to the scene of a crime, only to have the body and criminals not present, creating the suspicion among the police that the hero (Huntley Haverstock in Foreign Correspondent and Roger Thornhill in North by Northwest) are either unbalanced or clownish; (2) a false assassination or kidnapping (Van Meer in Foreign Correspondent and Max Stratman in The Prize (3) the use of identical doubles to advance the plot (Van Meer in Foreign Correspondent and Max Stratman in The Prize This raises the question as to whether the real issue of plagiarism isn't between Ernest Lehman's two screenplays, first for Hitchcock's North by Northwest and Mark Robson's The Prize, but whether he lifted material in the first place, from the 1940 Hitchcock film Foreign Correspondent (which Lehman had nothing to do with) and his screenplay for North by Northwest in 1959. HairyWombat 01:29, 27 December 2011 (UTC)