| Simmons keeps the dense, Hitchcockian plot thrumming with derring-do and literal cliffhangers and romance and a cryptozoological MacGuffin. |
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| We're looking for a MacGuffin, which is an object that he goes after. |
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| As the children of the Lords MacGuffin, Dingwall and Macintosh, the three young nobles arrive in the film to try to win the hand of Princess Merida through sporting contest. |
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| In The 39 Steps, the MacGuffin is a stolen set of design plans. |
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| They learn not the use of a macguffin to expose character flaws but, rather, that fiction might have a pattern. |
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| The murder is, of course, merely a Macguffin and even Poirot would be hard pressed to unmask the true killer. |
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