Incorrect goof.... Somebody wasn't paying attention!
The following goof is reported on the "goofs" page:
Mitch Wayne (Rock Hudson) takes a phone call in front of Kyle Hadley (Robert Stack) but says nothing about its contents. Kyle immediately jumps up and reacts to the contents of a call he did not hear, even repeating part of the call, saying, "He said 'the Hadley girl', didn't he? Well, I'm the Hadley boy."
This is incorrect. Actuallly, when he gets that call, you can clearly see Mitch (Rock Hudson) pick up the receiver and hit a button on the phone which puts the phone on "speaker" mode. You then hear the female receptionist's voice coming in over the speaker. We must assume that the barman's conversation, phoned from the bar, was also broadcast over the same speaker. Therefore Kyle, standing a few feet away in the same room, did in fact hear the same conversation that Mitch heard.
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