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		<title>Colonel Bogey March in Bridge on the River Kwai</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;Colonel Bogey March&#8221;, or &#8220;theme from the Bridge on the River Kwai&#8221; as it&#8217;s occasionally mistakenly called, began life in 1914, when it was pseudonymously written by Lieutenant F. J. Ricketts, inspired by a golfer and military man who would apparently give a two-note whistle in place of shouting &#8216;fore!&#8217;. Those two notes provide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Buses in The Third Man</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although The Third Man is (famously) set in Vienna, and makes use of numerous locations around that city, much of the studio work and other shots were filmed in London. This would apparently include at least some of the back projection footage made for the driving scenes. During the drives too and from the hospital [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wrong Year in The Odd Couple</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an onscreen mistake that makes the misplaced apostrophe in The Last Man on Earth look like a huge, movie-wrecking blunder. During the opening titles in The Odd Couple, somewhere between Felix Ungar&#8217;s failed suicide attempt and his trip to the strip bar, the titles show the copyright year as MCMXLVII &#8211; that&#8217;s 1947 &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Maltese Falcon in The Maltese Falcon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The opening scroll from The Maltese Falcon is, sadly, completely made up. There was no real Maltese falcon, although the idea may have come from another magnificent bird, the Kniphausen Hawk, which was made in 1697 for a Count of the Holy Roman Empire. The Kniphausen Hawk certainly fits the bill &#8211; or should that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harvey&#8217;s Height in Harvey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Henry Koster&#8217;s 1950 comedy Harvey, James Stewart plays Elwood P. Dowd, a good-natured sort who&#8217;s befriended Harvey, a giant invisible rabbit. At least, he seems to be a giant rabbit, by the way that Stewart spends the film looking up at him. However, Harvey was meant to be 6&#8217;3.5&#8243; and Jimmy Stewart himself was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Disclaimer in The Caine Mutiny</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was a great deal of interest right from the start in making a film of Herman Wouk&#8217;s 1951 novel The Caine Mutiny. Several studios tried to get a project off the ground, but always came up against the same stumbling block: the US Navy. Like a lot of boaty types, the US Navy takes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humphrey Bogart&#8217;s Face in Dark Passage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Dark Passage, Humphrey Bogart plays Vincent Parry, a man wrongly convicted of his wife&#8217;s murder. At the start of the movie, he escapes from prison, and halfway through he gets plastic surgery to enable him to search for his wife&#8217;s killer without detection. This gave the studio the problem of what to do about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Red Phone Box in Local Hero</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The iconic red telephone box featured in Bill Forsyth&#8217;s 1983 comedy Local Hero was just a prop: the tiny town of Pennan in Aberdeenshire didn&#8217;t actually have a phone box. There&#8217;s nothing unusual about that, but in this case, life soon followed art as film fans and tourists lobbied BT to install one. And so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alfred Hitchcock Cameo in The Birds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In The Birds, right after stopping in the street to respond to a boy&#8217;s wolf whistle, Tippi Hedren goes into a pet store. As she enters, out comes Alfred Hitchcock, along with two dogs. The dogs were apparently Hitchcock&#8217;s own, although for director&#8217;s pets, they weren&#8217;t particularly well trained. Despite their fleeting screen time, one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wolf Whistle in The Birds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Near the beginning of The Birds, when Tippi Hedren is walking down the street (having just passed the San Francisco poster), she turns to acknowledge a wolf-whistle from a passing boy. This is an in-joke. Hitchcock had first seen Hedren in a commercial for Sego diet drink (apparently made by a company called Pet Milk [...]]]></description>
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