by Cherie Zaslawsky, NewswithViews, ©2021 DaModernDaVinci, Pixabay, License (Jun. 26, 2021) — The brilliant director Alfred Hitchcock often used the term “McGuffin” to describe one of his favorite plot devices—an object or event that set the plot in motion, while essentially inconsequential in itself. And while Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps and North by Northwest provide […]