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Based On Novel Or Book | Fake Suicide
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Budget 471,000 USD
Box Office Collection 1,110,000 USD
The pin Ronnie steals off another man's coat on the bus at the beginning of the film is the Honorable Service Lapel Button. It was awarded to honorably discharged veterans of World War II. It is also nicknamed the "Ruptured Duck".
The $200 check Ronnie receives for one of his stories would be worth about $2,900 in 2020.
At one point Zachary Scott's character says "... if I had my way... I'd arrange for the world to come to a complete stop at regular intervals..." Scott's co-star Richard Erdman would later star in The Twilight Zone: A Kind of a Stopwatch (1963) playing a man with a magical stopwatch that can stop time and bring the world to a complete stop whenever he wants.
This film's earliest documented telecasts took place in both Los Angeles and Salt Lake City Sunday 16 September 1956 on KTLA (Channel 5) and on KUTV (Channel 2); it first aired in Washington DC Wednesday 24 October 1956 on WTTG (Channel 5), in Portland ME Wednesday 14 November 1956 on WCSH (Channel 6), in Sacramento CA Thursday 15 November 1956 on KCRA (Channel 3), in San Francisco Friday 23 November 1956 on KRON (Channel 4), in Phoenix Tuesday 25 December 1956 on KPHO (Channel 5), in Boston Thursday 31 January 1957 on WBZ (Channel 4), in Chicago Sunday 24 March 1957 on WGN (Channel 9), and in Portland OR Monday 1 April 1957 on KLOR (Channel 12).
"Hilda Fenchurch: Funny how rich we all are when we stop to think about it. Look at all that sky and ocean, that's ours too."
"Ronnie Mason: You know, if I had my way... Hilda Fenchurch: Yes? Ronnie Mason: I'd arrange for the world to come to a complete stop at regular intervals, and this would be one of them."