The Unfaithful : phone booths
In an airport.
An EXchange name sighting
FLanders? FLeetwood? Only the operator knows for sure.
An EXchange name sighting
In a few seconds the bungalow that goes with that telephone pad will fade into the apartment that goes with that number.
An EXchange name sighting
As Sidney Falco prepares to beseech his god.
A pocket notebook sighting (with EXchange names)
From From Vice Squad (dir. Arnold Laven, 1953).
An EXchange name sighting hearing
GEdney!
An EXchange name sighting
A Los Angeles motor livery, in a building still standing.
An EXchange name sighting
From Pitfall (dir. Andre de Toth, 1948), an exchange name in a telegram.
An EXchange name sighting
EXbrook.
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GRanite 1466 runs through The Blue Gardenia like a musical motif.
EXchange name sightings
From The Slender Thread.
JEffrey or LEgal
From The Hidden Eye (dir. Richard Whorf, 1945). Duncan “Mac” Maclain (Edward Arnold), a blind detective, stands outside the door to the Neptone Hair Tonic Co., listens carefully as someone dials a telephone, and later works out the details.
EXchange name sightings
Exchange names come into their own in Fallen Angel (dir. Otto Preminger, 1945).
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Exchange names have nice cameos in Framed (dir. Richard Wallace, 1947).
An EXchange name sighting
ACademy. From The Brothers Rico (dir. Phil Karlson, 1957).
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BRyant, from Safety Last!
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TUxedo 5-1234 was indeed the number of the Yellow Cab Company.
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TUxedo 1234, from Out of the Past.
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From Dark Passage: GReystone.
A parade of phone booths
From The Brasher Doubloon.
An EXchange names sighting: The Brasher Doubloon
BRighton, Burnside, MUtual, and ROchester.
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Miss Jane Hudson, HO 5-6259, is planning to revive her career.
EXchange names on screen: BArclay
From Deux hommes dans Manhattan (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville, 1959).
EXchange names on screen: VICtoria
From Alfred Hitchcock’s Stage Fright.
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From Act of Violence (dir. Fred Zinnemann, 1949.
A mystery actor and a telephone EXchange name
“DUnkirk 7–3899, that’s all we need.” But who is she?
EXchange names on screen
DUnkirk and MAdison, in Down Three Dark Streets, (dir. Arnold Laven, 1954).
EXchange names on screen
Let’s say OXford, OLympia, MAdison, CRestview.
Still life with telephone
Yes, that phone is about to ring.
An EXchange name on screen
YO.