(Continued : See Identity, decomposition, and Sunshine Cleaning . )
"What, one might ask, does the suave, debonaire
Roger Thornhill have to do with the notion of
decomposition (emphasized by the unusual
coffin-shaped 'O') implied in the acronym
formed by his initials?"
— Paul Gordon, Dial "M" for Mother ,
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2008, page 97
"To stay with the context of Cavell's brilliant reading
of the film's relation to Hamlet, 'there is something rot -ten
in North by Northwest ' that also needs to be explained."
— Paul Gordon, op. cit., page 98
Related remarks— Sunday morning, May 20, 2007.