Trivia
Ilya meets with two British sailors from the HMS Manchester. (The younger one offers her less money, but he appeals to Ilya.) There was no ship called HMS Manchester in the Royal Navy in 1960.
The two Soviet sailors arrive while Homer has Ilya out of her room. The name of the Russian ship is on the sailors' caps in the Cyrillic alphabet.
When the American fleet arrives, the destroyer, USS Douglas H. Fox (DD-779), is shown from stock footage and is recognizable by the large numbers 779 painted on her bow section.
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