- Body count: 11
- Was originally called, and was shot as 'Chequered Past'
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- SPOILER: At the end of the film, the airport building plan is switched from Ali's home in Staines to Slough, another town nearby. Both towns have a dismal reputation in the UK (as a policeman says to Ali, "Staines is shit hole." See also poem by John Betjeman: "Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough"). So it is a natural joke for UK viewers.
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