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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
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Counterfeit money. He is undercover posing as a possible buyer of counterfeit money. He nearly gets his partner killed.
His landlady. His landlady calls the police after finding a montage of assassination pictures in Malkovich's room.
Lilly. Clint annoys her by pretending he thinks she's a secretary when they first meet.
Re-election campaign. It's the President's re-election campaign so he wants to be out and about.
President of France. Clint's first assignment back on the President's team is to protect him during his tour with the French President.
| Clint's character is haunted by his duty in Dallas with Kennedy: what other President does he mention working for? | 'In the Line of Fire' Movie
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Nixon. He fell out with Nixon's chief of staff (presumably Haldeman).
In Lafayette Park in Washington, DC. They trace one of Booth's phone calls as coming from 'right across the street - he's in Lafayette Park'. They rush out and Clint spots Malkovich dressed as a hippy.
Minneapolis. She's from Minneapolis which is where 'James Carney' falsely claims is his home city. Bad luck, Pam...
He becomes a political donor. He writes a fat cheque to the re-election campaign and gets invited to a dinner for the President.
| Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan (Clint Eastwood) chews out his new partner early in the film for being late. What is this new partner's first name? | In the Line of Fire
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Al. Dylan McDermott plays Agent Al D'Andrea.
| During the first phone conversation that Frank has with 'Booth' (John Malkovich), 'Booth' uses a word that, we later learn, Frank had to look up to understand its meaning. What word was it? | In the Line of Fire
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panache. Mitch Leary initially wants to be called 'Booth' instead of 'Oswald' because he feels that John Wilkes Booth showed panache (a flair for the dramatic) by leaping onto the stage after shooting President Lincoln dead at the Ford Theater. Frank admits to Lilly Raines (Rene Russo) that he had to look up the word 'panache' afterwards.
| When Frank is first alerted to the threat of Mitch Leary, Leary is using the fake last name of 'McCrawley.' What state, according to his landlady, does 'McCrawley' hail from? | In the Line of Fire
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Colorado. As the landlady and Frank are about to enter Leary's apartment, she mentions that 'McCrawley' is from Colorado. Shortly thereafter, the Secret Service techs learn that someone with that name from that state died 30 years back -- Leary somehow obtained the real McCrawley's birth certificate in order to establish the fake identity.
| Frank tries to kiss Lilly Raines (Rene Russo) as he is playing the piano in a hotel bar, but she backs away and leaves. As she is exiting the bar, what song does he suddenly start playing? | In the Line of Fire
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'As Time Goes By'. Presumably since the first lines of the song are, 'You must remember this -- a kiss is still a kiss.' Plus, Frank had just lapsed into a lame Humphrey Bogart impersonation before making his big move, and "As Time Goes By" was prominently featured in the film "Casablanca," starring Bogart.
| We never learn the real name of the President of the United States (Jim Curley) in the film -- he is referred to only by his Secret Service code-name. What is that code-name? | In the Line of Fire
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Traveler. All of the Secret Service agents call him 'Traveler,' even when they're not in the midst of official communications. President Jed Bartlet of TV's 'The West Wing' has been known as both 'Liberty' and 'Eagle' at times. I made up 'Gladhand,' but that would probably be a good code-name for certain presidents, no?
| Frank finds a magazine devoted to crafting models in Leary's apartment, and later buys a copy of that magazine at a newsstand. What is the publication called? | In the Line of Fire
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'New Age Modeler'. As far as I can tell, there is no such magazine...but 'Finescale Modeler' and 'Radio Control Modeler' are real publications.
| Under which assumed alias does Mitch Leary assure his invitation to a campaign contributors' banquet by donating a large sum of money to the President's re-election campaign? | In the Line of Fire
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James Carney. Bill Watts is actually the name of Gary Cole's character, the cranky Secret Service agent in charge of the presidential detail.
| What is the name of the non-existent software company that Leary establishes as a cover for his campaign contributor identity? | In the Line of Fire
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Microspan. He mentions this once or twice, and we clearly see the company name printed on a corporate check.
$50,000. We're never told exactly where Leary got all that money, but we do see him writing out the check for $50,000.
| Frank Horrigan and Lilly Raines share a quiet moment eating ice cream on the steps of a notable Washington, DC edifice. Which one? | In the Line of Fire
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The Lincoln Memorial. The statue of Lincoln is directly behind them as they look out across the Reflecting Pool at the Washington Monument. They return to this spot in the last shot of the film.
| A curious bank employee named Pam Magnus (Patrika Darbo) inadvertently brings death to both herself and her roommate by Mitch Leary's hands...but they might have been safe if their dog had not been restrained across the room. What kind of dog was barking wildly as Leary killed both of its owners in ten seconds flat? | In the Line of Fire
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German Shepherd. The dog's name was either Rory or Lori -- I couldn't quite make it out the one time Pam said its name. Anyone out there know for sure?
| Where did Mitch Leary receive the training that made him into the deadly adversary that he proves himself to be throughout the movie? | In the Line of Fire
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the CIA. We're eventually told that Leary was a 'wetboy' -- a CIA assassin trained to eliminate specific targets, usually through rather serpentine means.
| As Leary is testing his hand-made composite plastic gun out in the woods, he draws the attention of two hunters, one of whom asks if he can fire the gun himself. What does the hunter shoot with Leary's gun? | In the Line of Fire
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a duck. Leary takes his gun back, reloads it, and immediately kills one of the hunters. The remaining hunter asks, 'Why did you do that??' Leary replies only with, 'Why'd you shoot that duck?' before killing him as well. Not a warm guy, that Mitch Leary.
| According to Mitch Leary, President John F. Kennedy had a favorite poem. Who wrote it? | In the Line of Fire
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Alan Seeger. Alan Seeger wrote 'I Have a Rendezvous With Death,' which Leary claims was JFK's favorite poem. Frank Horrigan's furious reply to Leary -- incorporating, in part, the title of this poem -- is perhaps the funniest moment in the movie.
| There has been, of course, an enormous amount of speculation, over the years, as to who really killed John F. Kennedy...but Frank Horrigan was actually there when it happened. Whom does he hold responsible for the assassination? | In the Line of Fire
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None of these. Despite his having witnessed the assassination first-hand, Frank seems to have no strong opinion as to the who, how, or why of it. As he explains to Lilly Raines: 'For thirty years I've been listening to idiots on bar stools spew out their own pet theories -- whether there was one gun, or two, or three; whether it was the mob, or the Cubans, or the CIA, or white supremacists. None of that's meant too much to me.'
| Leary's hand-made plastic gun is easily smuggled into the contributors' banquet, but bullets are metallic. How does he sneak the bullets through the metal detector at the banquet hall? | In the Line of Fire
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He hides them in a rabbit's foot on his keychain. As anyone who's been to the airport knows, since keys are metallic, you drop them in a basket before you pass through the metal detector. Pretty clever, there, Mitch.
| While trapped in a darkened, stalled glass elevator with Leary, Frank gives a two-word command to Lilly Raines (via his hand-held radio) that solves her problem of how to instruct the snipers to shoot Leary and not Frank. What are these two words? | In the Line of Fire
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aim high. As Frank is lying on the floor of the car and Leary is standing, firing at the top of the darkened car would theoretically take out Leary and leave Frank relatively unharmed...but somehow, they miss.
Leary kills himself. After the snipers fail to kill Leary, a brief struggle with Frank lands Leary outside the elevator car, where he hangs on for dear life. Frank offers to help him up, but Leary refuses the helping hand, deliberately lets go of the car with a smile, and falls to his death.
He retires. Frank finally realizes that it's time to hang up his spurs...and notes that, thanks to the press 'plastering his face everywhere,' undercover work would no longer be an option for him, anyway.
| We hear a surprising message on Frank's answering machine at the very end of the movie. Who left it? | In the Line of Fire
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Mitch Leary. At some undisclosed point before the climax of the film, Leary called Frank one last time. 'By the time you're hearing this, I'll be dead,' Leary says. 'I wonder, Frank -- did you kill me?'
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