In some cases the tower is the key plot element or a significant plot element.
* 1949 In The Man on the Eiffel Tower, the tower plays a central role, and the climax involves a climbing chase that predates the Mount Rushmore scene in North by Northwest.
* 1951 In The Lavender Hill Mob, models of the tower are central to the plot, and the climax takes place on the real tower.
* 1960 In Zazie dans le Métro a chase scene takes place on the stairs and crossbars of the tower.
* 1980 John Denis' novel The Hostage Tower (written under Alistair Maclean) features an audacious scheme to capture the tower and use the threat of its destruction to extort millions from the French government. The story was adapted into a telemovie of the same name.
* 1985 The James Bond film A View to a
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* 1949 In The Man on the Eiffel Tower, the tower plays a central role, and the climax involves a climbing chase that predates the Mount Rushmore scene in North by Northwest.
* 1951 In The Lavender Hill Mob, models of the tower are central to the plot, and the climax takes place on the real tower.
* 1960 In Zazie dans le Métro a chase scene takes place on the stairs and crossbars of the tower.
* 1980 John Denis' novel The Hostage Tower (written under Alistair Maclean) features an audacious scheme to capture the tower and use the threat of its destruction to extort millions from the French government. The story was adapted into a telemovie of the same name.
* 1985 The James Bond film A View to a
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| - In some cases the tower is the key plot element or a significant plot element.
* 1949 In The Man on the Eiffel Tower, the tower plays a central role, and the climax involves a climbing chase that predates the Mount Rushmore scene in North by Northwest.
* 1951 In The Lavender Hill Mob, models of the tower are central to the plot, and the climax takes place on the real tower.
* 1960 In Zazie dans le Métro a chase scene takes place on the stairs and crossbars of the tower.
* 1980 John Denis' novel The Hostage Tower (written under Alistair Maclean) features an audacious scheme to capture the tower and use the threat of its destruction to extort millions from the French government. The story was adapted into a telemovie of the same name.
* 1985 The James Bond film A View to a Kill contains a scene in the tower, including scenes in the Jules Verne restaurant there (filmed elsewhere), a fight on the stairway, and a BASE jump off the top of the tower as Bond (played for the last time by Roger Moore) chased a masked hitman who had just killed the French secret agent that Bond was meeting with (the killer was later revealed as May Day, played by Grace Jones). The video for the title song feature the members of Duran Duran as assassins and spies in or around the tower. [1]
* 1995 The third season finale of Highlander: The Series, "Finale part 2", Duncan MacLeod defeats the Immortal Kalas atop the tower.
* 2007 Featured in Rush Hour 3 as the climax battle. Portions of the fight was actual footage of the famous landmark, whilst other sequences were replicated built sets.
* 2007 The plot of the mystery Murder on the Eiffel Tower: A Victor Legris Mystery by Claude Izner involves a murder on the tower, during the Paris Exposition of 1889.
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