Best thriller movie trivia of 1965

Trivia: If you noticed that almost all of the bad guys, including the villain, are all Italian, this is no coincidence. The original story involved the Mafia and the villain, Emilio Largo, as a Mafia chieftain. The story was changed to replace the Mafia with the organization, SPECTRE.

Trivia: Len Deighton, the author of the original novel, also published a series of cookery books and wrote and drew a weekly strip cartoon-style illustrated cooking guide in London's The Observer newspaper - titled 'Len Deighton's Cookstrip'. In the first kitchen scene, where Harry Palmer is making coffee, you can see one of these strips is pinned to the wooden post next to the table.

Trivia: The Cardigans song "Hanging Around" is inspired by this movie. We can see that the video of the song presents similar sequences from the movie, and even the song played in the movie while DeNeuve is taking a walk is similar to the one by the band.

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Trivia: The ship used for the exterior close-up scenes was the Royal Navy frigate HMS Wizard. Some of the crew were used as extras in the film.

Trivia: The 'whistling' heard in the background before the opening credits is that of the director Sergio Leone.

Trivia: The voice of the mysterious host U.N. Owen is an uncredited Christopher Lee. (00:15:20)

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