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The 1993 English movie

Damage

stars Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda

Richardson, and Ruppert Graves. Irons (in the background) uses a bar Screwpull

to extract a cork.

In 1955

‘

s the

Seven Year Itch

Tom Ewell gets home from a vegetarian restaurant

and opens a bottle of pop on the refrigerator door. On the side of the refrigerator

is a T-shaped wooden handle corkscrew with bell.

In

Friday the 13

th

: Part 4: The Final Chapter

(1984), Jimmy gets a corkscrew through

the hand and a cleaver in the face.

In the 1992 Stephen King film

Sleepwalkers

, Mädchen Amick plays the role of

Tanya Robertson. At a picnic in a cemetery Charles Brady played by Brian

Krause slaps Tanya around and attempts to rape her. Tanya fends off his

advances by plunging a corkscrew into his torso.

In 1989

‘

s

Relentless

, Ken Lerner is killed by Judd Nelson with a corkscrew.

Two cork ejectors co-starred as weapons in these movies:

In

Murder Under Glass

, a1978 made for

television Columbo movie, a black

Corkmaster had a starring role. Peter Falk

plays the Columbo role and Louis

Jourdan is the villain in this episode.

Jonathan Demme directed and Robert

Van Scoyk wrote the story. At right

restaurant owner Vittorio Rossi, played

by Michael V. Gazzo opens a bottle of

Margaux.

A syringe was used to inject poison from a Puffer Fish (Fugu) into the needle of

the Corkmaster. Jourdan left it for the unwitting restaurant owner who then

poisoned himself when he used it to open a bottle of wine.

Jourdan plays the role of a restaurant critic who gives good reviews to the owner

for a percentage of their profits. When Vittorio Rossi refuses to pay, Jourdan

commits the crime.