Falling From High Places
In Vertigo, North by Northwest, Saboteur, Secret Agent, The Man Who Knew Too Much (both versions), To Catch a Thief and Rear Window, among others, the protagonist, villain, or even a supporting character falls from a height.
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Famous quotes containing the words falling, high and/or places:
“The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love.”
—Richard Edwards (c.1523–1566)
“Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick,
Yet with my nobler reason ‘gainst my fury
Do I take part. The rarer action is
In virtue than in vengeance.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)