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* In ''[[The Addams Family]]'' movie, the first stage of the secret entrance to the family vault is accessed by pulling a book out from a bookcase. The book's title? ''Greed.'' It's worth noting that ALL of the Addamses' books were like this, and that ''Greed'' was the most 'normal' book. ''Gone with the Wind'' causes a tornado when opened, and ''The Sun Also Rises'' emits daylight and the sound of birds.

* ''[[Young Frankenstein]]'' subverts the "book-as-hidden-door-switch": hearing something behind a bookcase, Dr. Frankenstein tries activating a secret door by yanking a seemingly out-of-place book from the shelf -- to no effect. When his assistant pulls a candle from a nearby sconce for added light, however, the door is opened.

* ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'': The warden of Shawshank prison opens up the Bible to discover that this is where Andy has been hiding the rock hammer he used to tunnel out of his cell. Salvation, indeed. For that extra touch of irony, the hollow section begins halfway through ''Exodus''.

** When the warden hears the police coming to arrest him, he looks at the picture on his wall that conceals his wall safe. The picture says, "His judgment cometh, and that right soon." Andy had stolen the incriminating documents out of the safe.

*** More like lots of time since he was locked into the room and checking everything.

*** Naturally, Corran responds by going through the remaining datacard boxes, hoping in vain to find additional weaponry.

* An odd variant that might be a subversion, a parody, or completely unrelated occurred in ''[[Discworld/Night Watch|Night Watch]]'', when a young Havelock Vetinari hid all the extant copies of a rare book on concealment inside the cover of ''Annals of the Great Accountants, Volume 3''. He thought the author would have approved.

** In ''[[Discworld/Unseen Academicals|Unseen Academicals]]'', Mrs Whitlow has cleared Ridcully's chambers of food and smoking supplies on the night before the big match. Luckily, his copy of ''An Occult Primer'' contains mints, tobacco, and cigarette papers... along with a note from Mrs. Whitlow that she didn't have the heart to confiscate those as well.

* On an episode of ''[[The Incredible Hulk]]'' a hunter who enjoys hunting [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game]] has Dr. Banner trapped in a room; IIRC a clue leads him to a key hidden inside a hollowed out book on [[Chess Motifs|chess, which was a major thematic element of the episode]].

* Played for comic effect on [[The George Lopez Show|George Lopez]]:

* In an episode of [[Night Court]], we discover in Harry's office a bookshelf that has a set of legal texts that hinge up to reveal a secret compartment, holding his pet rabbit.

* [[Conversational Troping]] in ''[[Murdoch Mysteries]]'':

 

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