Violence in A Theatre
- The Man Who Knew Too Much - both versions feature an assassination at the Royal Albert Hall.
- The 39 Steps - climactic shootout within a music hall.
- Stage Fright - confession and murder contemplated at the climax in an empty theatre, before a final chase.
- I Confess - Keller, the real murderer, makes his last stand in front of a stage.
- Torn Curtain - escape from a theater.
- Saboteur - shootout in movie theater.
- Sabotage - Mr Verloc, the saboteur, owns and lives in a movie theater. His wife murders him in an adjoining kitchen.
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Famous quotes containing the words violence in, violence and/or theatre:
“He thought of certain human hearts, their climb
Through violence into exquisite disciplines
Of which, as it now appeared, they all expired.”
—James Merrill (b. 1926)
“We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a rat and learn to do a disappearing act. Long ago we outgrew the need to be blowhards about our masculinity; we leave that to the Alaskans and Texans, who have more time for it.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)
“Glorious bouquets and storms of applause ... are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. But to move an audience in such a role, to hear in the applause that unmistakable note which breaks through good theatre manners and comes from the heart, is to feel that you have won through to life itself. Such pleasure does not vanish with the fall of the curtain, but becomes part of one’s own life.”
—Dame Alice Markova (b. 1910)