Woody Allen used footage from old movies (his character is watching most of them with his niece) to connect the parallel stories of his film. We watch segments from Alfred Hitchcock’s Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941),
Frank Tuttle’s This Gun for Hire (1942),
Curtis Bernhardt’s Happy Go Lucky (1943)
and Edward Ludwig’s The Last Gangster (1937).
Images from Allen’s existential masterpiece Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989).
More: Crimes and Misdemeanors (II).
