As often happens in this series, references to movies are purely the stuff of fiction. In that vein, the movie Mr. Haney mentions does not exist. Contrary to Mr. Haney's claim, Melvyn Douglas did not appear in any movies where he was in Siberia or trapped in a mine, and the closest he comes to anything about Russia is the movie he made with Greta Garbo: Ninotchka (1939).