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Inside Jokes + Visual Jokes In This Movie


On the car radio, both Sinatra and Dean Martin sing songs.

Matt Helm driving the 1960s version of the minivan, a station wagon instead of a fast sports car. Deliberately square, especially for a non-family man.

Matt Helm is supposed to be a photographer, but he uses a Ricohmatic twin lens reflex (an amateur level camera) instead of a Rolleiflex, which is what all pros used if they used a TLR. Again, deliberately square.

The fat, Chinese villain eats diet egg foo yung.

Are there any others?







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From imdb trivia: "In the scene where Matt Helm (Dean Martin) is checking into the Phoenix Hotel and Andreyev (Roger C. Carmel) is lurking in the foreground, the hotel newsstand is immediately behind him. The newsstand shelf is lined with books from Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm series, on which the movie is based."

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