Early in the movie, a trio of Spitfires overflies the yacht that is the center of one of the three stories. The owner, Mr. Dawson, says something to the effect of, "The Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. The best sound you can hear out there." The Spitfires were powered by the Merlin. The German Bf 109s of that era would have had Daimler-Benz engines. However, the Messerschmitts used in this movie were not 1940-era aircraft, but were Hispanos, Bf 109s built in Spain for the Spanish Air Force under contract in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Rather than the sleek nose profile of the original Bf 109s, these planes have "chin", to accommodate their new engines, which were Rolls-Royce Merlins. The inside joke? Therefore, regardless of which fighters flew by, the actual actors, not the characters they played, would have heard the sound of Rolls-Royce Merlin engines.

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