The Cadillac - question

Is the chase scene where the Plaza Cable guy chases Kramer over the building roofs, ending with the cable guy yelling "I'll get you! Kramer! I'll get you" based on a specific movie??? That scene always hits a deja vu chord with me... Rob

On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 23:02:03 -0600, rob wrote:

I agree and a lot of other people have noticed this. I wish somebody could identify the film - I would add it to my Movies Page.

The roof top chase reminds me of Hitchcock's Vertigo, especially when the cable guy stops and looks down from the roof.

At first I couldn't remember it, but now it's coming back to me; is that in the very beginning when James Stewart and his partner are chasing someone on a rooftop and his partner falls and dies, resulting in Stewart's fear of heights? Or am I thinking of a different movie?

On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 16:43:46 -0600, "John Twernbold" wrote: . . .

RIGHT! I remember that. That could be it. I will try to watch them both again.

In article [email] (The News Guy(Mike)) writes:

The music during the Plaza Cable chase scene seems quite reminescent of the Bernard Herrmann scores used in many Hitchcock films, but the specific passage reminds me more of the Mount Rushmore scene in North by Northwest rather than Vergtigo. Was there a rooftop chase in Rear Window, too?

Yeah, a rooftop chase featuring a guy in a wheelchair and an obese man... ;-)

In article "John Twernbold" writes:

That's the one! Thanks! :-)

• Mark "used to live in the VAlencia telephone exchange" Mellin

That's the one. Vertigo was also spoofed by Mel Brooks in High Anxiety.

rob wrote in message news:...

It's a direct ripoff of Charlie Chaplain's "City Lights" (1931)- when lovable tramp Charlie is caught stealing cable TV (called "cable TV" back then) and is chased through the hamlet by a vengeful cable installer.

Cable TV in the 1930s? This seems like it could have been part of the conversation of Jerry saying to George, "They didn't have roommates in the middle ages."

East

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