Other mistake: At or just after the point where Steve McQueen restrains the diner owner from running out the door - McQueen's wedding ring is visible on his left hand throughout one entire long-shot. (He was 27, despite playing a teenager, and had been married to Neile Adams for more than a year).
The Blob (1958)
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Directed by: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr., Russell S. Doughten Jr.
Starring: Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe, Olin Howland
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Steve Andrews: You know, plenty of people in their right minds thought they saw stuff like flying saucers. The light was just right in the angle of the imagination. And oh boy if that's what this is, this is just an ordinary night, and you and I are going to go home to sleep, and tomorrow the sun will shine just like yesterday, good old yesterday.
Question: The movie was made in 1958, why does the calendar in police station show July 1957?
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Answer: Because movies aren't always set in the year they're released. Absent any conflicting information, the assumption must be that the events of the movie take place around July 1957.