Ken Mogg writes: > P.S. Didn't someone on this site pull me up a while ago about my saying > that the fairground scene in Hitchcock's MR AND MRS SMITH (1942) is set > at the New York World's Fair? The person thought that the setting is > Coney Island. Well, I notice that Prof. Peter Conrad's new book, 'The > Hitchcock Murders' (Faber), says this: 'The [scene is set in] the > grounds where the World's Fair was held in 1939'. Sounds like neither > of us (me or my 'corrector') got it quite right. Apparently, everyone is right. According to a webpage devoted to the Fair, the parachute jump was installed as an amusement for the fair, then moved to Coney Island! See: http://www.mcny.org/m23.htm Don Larsson ----------------------------------------------------------- Donald F. Larsson English Department, AH 230 Minnesota State University Mankato, MN 56001 ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite