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I post here to add this:
About 13 minutes into the film a major character gets up out of a phone book and then walks past a man standing and reading a newspaper. The shot basically keeps this man at center shot for a brief period of time, then fades away to an airplane in flight.
The newspaper reader is my father. He was a grad student in DC when he somehow wound up an extra for that shot. (It's kind of a foreshadowing, too, because three years later he began flying for American Airlines - thus the fade to the airplane becomes the foreshadowing.)
We used to catch this once in a great while on late night TV, back in the pre-VCR days, and we'd watch Dad's cameo then go to bed. Finally, last year it came out on DVD and now my mom has a copy (Dad's been dead for 28-1/2 years...)
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Your post (more than five years ago, now) is especially interesting to me, because I paid close attention to your father the first time I saw the film. Considering how prominently he figured in the shot, I wondered if he was going to fold his newspaper and tail the spy, or would turn up later as an FBI agent. Even now, I can't help thinking the director wanted us to wonder about that. Your father gave a riveting performance!
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