Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Sighting: END OF THE AFFAIR
From: chucko@siteconnect.com (Chuck Albertson)
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:14:00 -0800

Sure it has---that's what Jack Nicholson was doing with it in "Chinatown"
("I do a lot of matrimonial work, Mrs. Mullray---it's my metier.")

Chuck Albertson
Seattle, Wash.

> In addition to the Leica sign - which I wasn't keen enough to spot - the
> more obvious presence of Leica in the film is in the hands of a small boy,
> the son of a private detective, who is doing undercover work for his
> father, snatching incriminating photographs with an appropriately 1940's
> Leica.  Of all the possible uses for which Leicas are particularly well
> suited this is one that I have never seen mentioned on this list!
>
> Simon.
>