the story can be seen on the BFI player with a new specially commissioned score by Pete Wiggs from the band Saint Etienne. The story of the Mistletoe Bough is recounted in the 1948 Alfred Hitchcock film Rope, where it is said to be the favorite tale of the main character, Brandon Shaw. Unbeknownst to the story teller, Shaw has previously murdered his friend, former classmate David Kentley and hidden the body in the chest in front of which they are standing. The story is also recounted in The Hand in the Trap, a 1961 Argentine film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson. In a conversation between the characters Laura Lavigne (Elsa Daniel) and Cristóbal Achával (Francisco Rabal), Cristóbal refers to the story as Modena's Bride. He tells the tale of a woman who, on her wedding night, played hide and seek with her husband and hid inside a chest. No one could find her. Twenty years later, her skeleton was found wrapped in tulle. References External links Full text version of the Samuel Rogers poem An early song sheet for 'The Mistletoe Bough' English folklore Premature burials Culture in Hampshire