This movie became the focus of a real-life adventure story, when mercenary John Miller used it as cover, in his attempt to kidnap fugitive Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs from Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, and return him to Britain for trial. Miller and his team posed as members of this movie's production team, offering a cameo in the movie to Biggs, intending to lure him onto a yacht for the proposed scene to be filmed, and once in international waters, sail it to a Commonwealth country, from where he could be extradited. The scheme became unstuck when a member of the press, who'd heard rumors of the operation, telephoned Biggs' house, thinking he had already been snatched.

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