At the recent Hitchcock Centenary conference, Joseph Stephano also said that the license plates, neither the ANL nor the NFB one, mean nothing and were simply on the cars they used. And the shot of the plate does serve the purpose of underlining the fact than Marion is now in California. But we don't want to get too bogged down in author intentionality, do we, or we will have to cast off some of our most ingenious ideas about Hitchcock's work. William M. Lingle [log in to unmask] Communication Department 503.434.2521 Linfield College fax 503.434.2566 McMinnville OR 97128 USA ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite