Here are some true events they left out of the movie:
- The forgers put the wrong date on some of the passports, indicating that the carriers were travelers from the future.
- The Canadian cabinet had to meet in secret to authorize false passports. Then the authorities refused one to the CIA agent, because he had not been included in the vote.
- When the hero visited the Iranian consulate, he left his portfolio in the taxi cab.
- The CIA agents’ map of Tehran led them to the Swedish embassy instead of the Canadian one.
- On the morning of the actual escape, our hero slept through his alarm.
And I think Roger Zelazny was the writer they got to work on the "script" they were supposedly filming! Best known for science-fiction & fantasy, Zelazny wrote at least one mystery/crime novel!
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