Die Hard with a Vengeance down to his foreign hideaway (this version is very similar to Alec Guinness' character's situation in the British heist film "The Lavender Hill Mob" made some 45 years earlier in which the stolen gold was turned into Eiffel Tower paperweights). McClane is keen to take his problems out on Simon, who he invites to play a game called "McClane Says". This involves a form of Russian roulette with a small Chinese rocket launcher that has had the sights removed, meaning it is impossible to determine which end is which. McClane then asks Simon some riddles similar to the ones he
Bowler hat and John Cleese, and also by the fictional character of John Steed of "The Avengers", played by Patrick Macnee. In the 1964 film "Mary Poppins", set in Edwardian London, 1910, the London banker George Banks (played by David Tomlinson) wears a bowler. The British building society Bradford & Bingley registered more than 100 separate trademarks featuring the bowler hat, its long-running logo. In 1995 the bank purchased, for £2,000, a bowler hat which had once belonged to Stan Laurel. The bowler is part of the Droog uniform that the English character Alex wears in "A Clockwork Orange" to the extent