Those people boarding the American railway system cannot expect to meet femmes as fatale as Eva Marie Saint (behaving in a very unsaintly manner). And it was absurdity – albeit a killer joke – to have a bus stop on a bare midwest prairie, where a plane might hunt a man. All of those ingredients, it was said, were at the convenience of the movie, the essence of its movieness. But you’d never find them in life.”

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