The Third Man (1949)
Thursday says "'I'm more of a Holly Martins man myself ..."Opportunity Knocks (TV Series 1956–1990)
Box mentions this show in relation to Strange and Morse.The Music Man (1962)
The assistant librarian's surname is the same as that of "Marian the librarian".The Great Gatsby (1974)
When Morse finds a letter to Hollis Binks from his optician, it has the firm's logo at the top of the page - an old-fashioned pair of wire frame glasses with a disembodied eye in either lens. This image is identical to the image found in the 1974 film on a huge billboard ("the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg") past which various characters drive in the course of the story, and into which one car crashes, causing a fatality.Chinatown (1974)
A man named Hollis Binks is murdered (having drowned in concrete) after refusing to authorise an unsafe building project. In the Roman Polanski film, a man named Hollis Mulwray is murdered (by being forcibly drowned) after refusing to authorise an unsafe dam project.
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