Ivor Montagu, who worked with Hitchcock on several of his British films, attributes the coining of the term to MacPhail.
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One of Alfred Hitchcock’s favourite devices for driving the plots of his stories and creating suspense was what he called the 'MacGuffin'.
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Angus MacPhail (8 April 1903 – 22 April 1962) was an English screenwriter, active from the late 1920s, who is best remembered for his work with Alfred Hitchcock.
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