Ransom Notes
Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 12:42 pm
The 1913 Fantomas film The Murderous Corpse includes what is now a well-worn plot device: a message composed of words cut out of newspapers or magazines, done to avoid revealing the handwriting style of the sender.
I wonder if this is the first filmed instance of this? I suppose that thriller writers have used such letters ever since printed material was widely available.
Not this exactly, but sorta.
I wonder if this is the first filmed instance of this? I suppose that thriller writers have used such letters ever since printed material was widely available.
Not this exactly, but sorta.
