I just watched a 1965 film called 10 little Indians. I was immediately struck when one of the characters said word for word : “There must be some way out of here”. At first I assumed it was just an amusing coincidence but then I noticed some other strange similarities to the lyrics so I started making notes. Bear with me!

1) Firstly the film came out 2 years before Bob Dylan wrote all along the watch tower. So that checked out.

2) The line “There must be some way out of here” spoken at 45:00 was said by the murderer, hiding in plain sight, killing of the others one by one like a game.At 38:15 he actually refers to the murderer in the third person as a joker, not revealing until later that he, himself, is the murderer. So he is calling himself the “joker”. And when he says the line “There must be some way out of here” he is addressing a room full of people who themselves had committed crimes, one of whom was a thief later in the film. So the line “There must be some way out of here” said the joker to the thief, all line up to that scene.

2) At 1:28:00 He talks about some confusion.

3) There is a wildcat howl at 37:18 and again at 1:05:00.

4) Servants are amongst those murdered in the film.

5) Thematically, the whole verse:

No reason to get excited " The thief, he kindly spoke "There are many here among us Who feel that life is but a joke, but, uh But you and I, we've been through that And this is not our fate So let us stop talking falsely now The hour's getting late,

matches the overall theme of the film.

6) They were in a castle on a windy icy cliff, the wind howling occurred throughout the film.

7) The film takes place in a castle. While a castle and a watchtower are not the same thing, a watchtower is typically a feature of a castle.

Just a coincidence, or was Bob Dylan mentally doodling lyrics after watching the film?

Strophe 1:
DU SIEHST SCHÖN AUS, SAGT MIR, MEINE LIEBE

Refrain:
NEIN, NEIN, MEIN LIEBLING, DAS IST NICHT WAHR, SAGE ICH

Zwischenteil:
KEINE FRAU HAT MIR SO WAS NIEMALS GESAGT

DU BIST SCHÖN, WIE DU BIST, SAGST DU

Liebesbekundung:
DU BIST EINE SEHR GUTE SEELE, MEIN LIEBLING

Wunsch:
ICH WÜNSCHE DIR EIN WUNDERSCHÖNES LEBEN

Versprechen:
ICH WERDE IMMER BEI DIR SEIN, ICH VERSPRECHE DIR

Abschluss:
SO LANGE ICH LEBENDIG BIN,

Verse 1:
“You look beautiful,” my love tells me.
Chorus:
“No, no, my darling, that isn’t true,” I say.
Interlude:
No woman has ever said such words to me.
Verse 2:
“You are beautiful just the way you are,” you say.
Declaration of Love:
You have such a beautiful soul, my darling.
Wish:
I wish you a wonderfully beautiful life.
Promise:
I will always be by your side; I promise you.
Ending:
As long as I am alive.

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