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Movies where someone escapes from cuffs with a stolen item?

posted a year ago by orangeflava (1926)
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Trying to find some movies where a character eacapes from shackles/cuffs/restraints with a small item they swiped.

Some I have so far:

Die Hard with a Vengeance: zeus escapes from cuffs with a strand of metal from a big metal rope cable
Terminator 2: sarah escapes from bed restraints with a paperclip from a file
The Silence of the Lambs: Hannibal uses a piece of a pen or was it part of some glasses? I forget but i know he uses something to escape
Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1: grace steals a paperclip from a passport and uncuffs herself

Other examples?

[–] quartz (482) a year ago

at the end of the A Team Bradley Cooper escapes from some cuffs with a pin

I thought it was well known that in films, all hand cuffs (and locks) can be escaped from or picked using a bent paper clip

[–] orangeflava (1926) a year ago

In real life too. I bought cuffs once just to try this and they are not complicated locks. It is quite easy if you have something small that will fit in the release hole.

[–] PaladinNJ (21783) a year ago

Actually Sosa passed him the key when they kissed.

[–] orangeflava (1926) a year ago

I feel like there has to be more. Anyone?

[–] PaladinNJ (21783) a year ago

I know this is a TV show. But in Kojak episode, Both Sides of the Law, Kojak handcuffs the Professor, a master thief, to the steering wheel of a van so they can use him to catch the real dangerous criminals. He cooperates. Afterwards Kojak goes to collect him, and the Professor steps out of the van handing him his cuffs back. It was hysterical.

[–] orangeflava (1926) a year ago

Nice one, thanks