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From: reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: WITNESS (spoiler) and R ratings
Message-ID: <4834@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 16:53:16 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 16 16:53:16 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 21-Apr-85 05:49:57 EST
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Reply-To: reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP (Peter Reiher)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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In article <2368@mit-hermes.ARPA> jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA (John Purbrick) writes:
>Here's a movie with three people getting killed ... one suffocated in a 
>grain silo (at least that one's original)

Hardly to the point of the original article, but, from the Department of
Universal Plagiarism, getting suffocated in a grain silo isn't original,
except by comparison.  D.W. Griffith featured such a death in a short film
made in 1914 (I think), called "A Corner in Wheat".  A greedy capitalist
corners the wheat market, causing many poor people to suffer.  Ironically,
he falls into one of his grain silos and is buried and suffocated by the
wheat he has purchased.  Griffith stole the idea from Norris' novel "The
Octopus", which features a similar incident.  It's entirely possible that
Weir and his screenwriters never heard of either of these works, of course.
-- 
        			Peter Reiher
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