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Endeavour Pilot: Hat tips to The Third Man?


Anyone else catch these? I've lost count of how many times I've watched TTM so these really drew my attention. Of course, it's superficial as there are no parallels in the plots, but still...

Endeavour - Morse’s landlady is Mrs. Crabbin.
The Third Man - The organizer of cultural events (for the CRS of the GHQ) is Mr. Crabbin.

Endeavour - Rosalind Stromming to our hero: “you should find yourself a girl.”
The Third Man - Anna Schmidt to Holly Martins: “you ought to get yourself a girl.”

Endeavour - Our hero reacts to the blase attitude toward murder: “[a young girl is murdered] and all you can say is ‘dear, dear’!?”
The Third Man - Holly Martins to Crabbin: “a man is murdered and all you can say is goodness, how awkward.”

Endeavour - DI Thursday tells our hero: “come on then, if you’re going to make that train.”
The Third Man - Major Calloway to Holly Martins at end of the film: “I’ll have to step on it if you're going to catch that plane.”

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Interesting observations.

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