I've seen the film twice now, and think that Hitchcock is a fairly constant shadow in it, not least because of the theme of chaos erupting into an ordered existence. One of the many hints of the Hitchcock influence is the location of the ritualized orgy in Glen Cove, which is of course the community to which Roger Thornhill was kidnapped at the beginning of 'North by Northwest." Stephen Brophy [log in to unmask] www.stephenbrophy.org ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu