The infamous MacGuffin in this Hitchcock film is the identity of the thief.The stylish film""s screenplay, by John Michael Hayes (in his second project with Hitchcock), was based on the novel of he same name by David Dodge.Alone, our memories resist this disintegration and grow more lovely with the passing years.The Wienie King points to a bird embroidered on her wrap-around robe: "I love birds." He guesses that if she""s he penniless tenant, she "must be broke." The elderly gentleman sympathetically and grimly remembers his own impoverished youth and his passing years, quickly ready to offer charitable support: "I was broke too when I was about your age, but I didn""t have a figure like you""ve got." The group of four fled from the temple""s crumbling debris, and before riding off on horseback into a setting sun, Henry Sr.Owen and Claire drove further into the restricted area and discovered he destroyed Gyrosphere, and surmised that the boys "made it out" (muddy footprints revealed their flight) and bravely "jumped" at he waterfall to save themselves.Mayor: Intent? How did you establish that?Callahan: When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn""t out collecting for he Red Cross.