The League of Gentlemen (1960)
The bank raid is committed with the thieves wearing gas-masks to cover their faces, rather than balaclavas or stocking-masks, as would be more usual. Gas masks are also used in Basil Dearden's film, suggesting this is a deliberate homage.Cash on Demand (1961)
Joan Thursday's boss's name is Mr. Fordyce. He is the martinet bank manager. Peter Cushing plays a martinet bank manager whose bank is robbed in Cash on Demand (1961).Cape Fear (1962)
When Cole Mattthews, wounded by Thursday, attempts to goad him into "finishing him off", he is similar to Robert Mitchum goading Gregory Peck to do the same in the 1962 film, even using very much the same language. In both cases, however, the person being goaded elects to let the wounded man serve a long prison term instead.Coogan's Bluff (1968)
The fight scene where Thursday and Strange take on Cole Mathews and his gang is filmed as an unmistakeable homage to the fight scene in a poolroom in the earlier film, something made clear when Strange, like Clint Eastwood in Don Siegel's movie, uses a billiard cue, first to hit someone in the stomach and then as a club.Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
When Morse questions the contents of the murdered man's stomach, Dr. DeBryn says, "Alimentary, my dear Morse!" - echoing James Bond's "Alimentary, my dear Leiter" in the 1971 film when asked how he smuggled out diamonds. Both remarks are, of course, puns on Sherlock Holmes's "Elementary, my dear Watson", although this sentence is, in fact, never uttered by Holmes in any of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories.
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