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"He walks across the film frame, carrying a trumpet case, as Scottie is about to go upstairs to
Elster's office in the shipyard. I read Hitchcock as marking the move from one world to another. He is a Pied Piper, leading Scottie away from the
realistic world, where, as "hard-headed Scot," he has just been tryingrationally to overcome his acrophobia. "
But I believe that is an ear trumpet case. It's not a trumpet case. A small point, perhaps, but on such points does interpretation hinge.
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