$64,000 question


I just watched Destination Murder and Jackie Wales (Stanley Clements) said to "Armitage", when he goes back for the $5,000 extortion, "That's the $64,000 question", with heavy emphasis on the word, "thousand". I actually watched it twice, to be sure, once on TCM east and again later on TCM west.

But the movie was made in 1950, way before the quiz show.
That means that the phrase could not have come from the quiz show, as many people claim (and I would have said also, before seeing this film).

From what I've read, the radio show "Take it or leave it" only had "the $64 question".

Anybody else notice it?

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yes!

it sounded to me like he was making a joke since his attitude was quite arrogant at the time.

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