This movie was shot in Spain during the regime of General Francisco Franco. One day, while filming the scene with the crowd chanting the Marxist theme (at 3:00 a.m.), police showed up on set thinking a real revolution was taking place and insisted on staying until the scene was finished. The secret police supposedly surveyed the crowd as the extras sang the Internationale for a protest scene, so many extras pretended they didn't know the words. (Of course, the extras had been rehearsed in singing the Internationale before the scene was shot.) Meanwhile, residents who lived nearby had awoken to the singing of the Internationale and mistakenly concluded that Franco had died (or been overthrown). Some residents even popped champagne bottles at the mistaken rumor.

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