What movie by Alfred Hitchcock had the villain falling to his death from the torch on the Statue of Liberty?
Saboteur is a 1942 Universal spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock where the villain falls from the Statue of Liberty in New York. Cornered villain Fry (Norman Lloyd) flees Pat (Priscilla Lane), Barry (Robert Cummings) and police officers in this signature scene atop the Statue of Liberty from Hitchcock's Saboteur. To obtain the scene of Frye falling from the Statue of Liberty, Norman Lloyd had to be shot against a black background while the camera swiftly pulled up and away from him; the Statue of Liberty and ground below were matted in later.
The final battle with Barry and Frye on the torch of the Statue of Liberty was used to symbolize and show democracy winning over tyranny.
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Phil Kennelty
The only one I never saw of them.
Edie Koller
That was easy for me because I have all of Hitchcock's movies either on tape or dvd.
Player
Picked the one that I did not see.
Denise Currie
Good Q&A I went with Vertigo.
Chris Braid
Majority let me there. Not heard of that film. Perhaps that should have been a clue in itself!
kamaker
Lynne Zeman, me either
kamaker
I should have guessed since I didn't see that film or that scene
Lynne Zeman
Only film I had not heard of.
Sean Philips
Great film trivia!
Dave Levett
Process of elimination
Al Cole
Got it,saw the other 3.
Claire Mitchell
Wrong guess.
Marcella Kosse
I got it because I had seen the other 3 movies and knew it hadn’t happened in them. That left the movie I hadn’t seen.
Pierre Poirier
jmsblanton, process of elimination also. But i saw all four. Saboteur was the only one i could not remember the ending of.
Rob Farr
Great movie trivia question...