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Memorable Movie Quotes
Lenny: Sex is not the answer.
Bob Crane: I know that Lenny, it's the question. 'Yes' is the answer.
Trivia
The leather jacket that Greg Kinnear wore while playing 'Bob Crane' in the "Hogan's Heroes" (1965) scenes in this movie was the one that 'Bob Crane' actually wore during that TV series "Hogan's Heroes" (1965). Crane's son Bob Jr. (Robert David Crane) loaned the jacket to Greg Kinnear for this movie. Prior to "Hogan's Heroes" (1965), this jacket was worn by Frank Sinatra in Von Ryan's Express (1965).
Goofs
When Crane's photographs are spread across the floor, we see small black lettering on the back of each print. This black lettering is a computer printout of exposure information, used by photo lab machines only since the 1980s, long after the movie's setting in the late '60s/early '70s.
Crane's kitchen phone in the '60s has a modern (at least 1970s) modular cord on the handset.
Crane's daughters play with a bent-armed Barbie doll; all such dolls of that era had straight arms.
The issue of "Guideposts" shown by Crane's interviewers is from the early '90s.
Early in the film, the character of Bob Crane is seen playing the drums in his house. On the underside of both cymbals the large black Zildjian logo is clearly visible. This part of the film takes place in 1964, but the Zildjian company did not put this large logo on the underside of their cymbals until over a decade later. In 1964 they would only have had a manufacturer's stamp on the top and no ink logo. They are clearly modern cymbals.
Box Office Info In USA
Budget $7,000,000
Gross $2,062,066
Weekend Gross $6,827,232
Filming Locations
Arizona, USA
Coachella Valley, Mecca, California, USA
(road scenes)
Los Angeles, California, USA
New York City, New York, USA
Palm Springs, California, USA