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Additional trivia - a real phone number!


One scene shows a phone call being dialed on an old-type rotary dial phone. The label on the center of the dial is clearly showing the number of the phone itself. It's actually in a coffee shop on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles! I thought the motion picture industry used ficticious movie phone numbers with 555, to stop people like me calling them from Glasgow, Scotland!

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The prop department probably got an old phone from the coffee shop when the coffee shop got new ones and someone forgot to remove the lable with the phone # on it.

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What, a Scotsman paying for an international phone call. Yeah right !!

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