Really don't like starting a whole new thread for just this one nit, but I'm watching this Charles Bronson film when I caught this particular nit.

Telefon is a 1977 movie starring Charles Bronson, Lee Remick and Donald Pleasance. During the early part of the Cold War, the Soviets have created sleeper saboteurs who are activated using a line from Robert Frost's "Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Evening". Pleasance, who plays rogue KGB officer, Dalchimsky, has decided to start World War III by activating the saboteurs. Bronson, playing Grigori Borizov, another KGB agent, has been sent undercover to stop Dalchimsky.

Borizov at first can't figure out the pattern Dalchimsky is using to activate the sleepers. Then Borizov realizes that Dalchimsky is using the names of the cities to spell his own name. Dalchimsky is now up to the letter "H".

Borizov places a call to a city, giving the area code "214". That jumped out at me because I know for a fact that area code doesn't connect to a city being with "H". It's the area code for Dallas, Texas. As a native born Dallas, Texan, I know that for a fact.

I saw this film in a theater in late '77 or early '78. IIRC, even though Bronson played a KGB agent, he spoke with no trace of a Russian accent. Tyne Daly played a nerdy computer analyst, several years before Cagney and Lacey.

This, Death Wish and The Mechanic are probably, in my opinion, Bronson's best films - of the ones he starred in. The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape are the other two great movies he was involved with. Incidentally, this was the last time Bronson and Donald Pleasance co-starred together.