What was the first movie to introduce "blue wire or red wire" bomb disposal?
I have seen Juggernaut (1974) recently. There is a scene in the end of the movie when the bomb disposal expert, Fallon has to choose one of the two wires (red or blue) to cut in order to disarm the bomb. Finally, Fallon makes a choice by intuition.
I have seen the similar scenes in several other movies (one of the parts of Die Hard, for example).
So, my questions are: What was the first movie to introduce "cut the wire" bomb disposal? Is it Juggernaut itself?
A quick search on Google and IMDB didn't reveal any info.
Best Answer
A lot of people seem to think Juggernaut is the earliest film to use the "wire dilemma" trope. I found references to it everywhere from Amazon reviews to rap lyrics. Slightly more reliable references include:
Movies you should own: Juggernaut (Terror on the Britannic)
The first film to develop the 'red wire/blue wire' dilemma, it's a tense piece directed by Richard 'Superman II' Lester, with dialogue by Alan 'Beiderbecke' Plater, that while featuring an all-star cast is in reality a mesmerising monologue by Harris and a musing on the nature of death. It's a movie you should own.
JUGGERNAUT (1974) - a very British disaster movie
There's a scene in the film that's famous, but you probably don’t realise it was shown here first. Where the crucial decision has to be made – to cut the blue wire or the red wire.
It's also the oldest film listed in Televison Tropes - Wire Dilemma article.
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Where did cut the red wire come from?
Lupin III: Island of Assassins: Everyone's survival comes down to red wire vs. blue wire. Goemon walks up while the rest of the group is paralyzed by the decision, draws his sword and cuts the red wire ("the color of pickled plums" being his justification).Should you cut the red wire or the blue wire?
3 wires: If there are no red wires, cut the second wire. Otherwise, if the last wire is white, cut the last wire. Otherwise, if there is more than one blue wire, cut the last blue wire. Otherwise, cut the last wire.What color wires do you cut to defuse a bomb?
Three of your colleagues have gone out and each has apprehended a henchman of the bomb designer. These henchmen all helped build the bomb and so know the correct wire to cut. Under swift interrogation, all three of them have confessed \u201cTo diffuse the bomb, you must cut the red wire\u201d.How do bomb defusal know which wire to cut?
Each bomb has a different configuration of wires that must be cut in the correct order to be defused. Each wire has a different colour, and the colour that must be cut next is shown by both the indicator at the top of the bomb and the background colour.Juggernaut (12/12) Movie CLIP - Cut the Blue Wire (1974) HD
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Answer 2
One of the "deleted scenes" in Griffith's 1915 silent The Birth of a Nation had a red wire/blue wire bomb defusing dilemma. The scene was cut because the color issue didn't work in a B&W film.
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