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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“A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.”
—P.D. (Phyllis Dorothy)
“Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity. In male culture, police are heroic and so are outlaws; males who enforce standards are heroic and so are those who violate them.”
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“Compare ... the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)