As the characters discuss the Jackal, Freddy (Steve Martin) pulls up outside the Welcome Hotel in a white Ferrari. Coincidentally, Anton Rogers starred in another film, set on the Riviera, 17 years earlier and also featuring a "Jackal" – Day Of The Jackal. Later on in the film, Steve Martin harrasses a young lady for a copy of the Wall Street Journal, on Place Amélie Pollonais, Villefranche’s largest open piazza - an area often used for antiques and fish markets and reguarly hosting live music. Steve and Michael disappear up a staircase on Boulevard de L’Impératrice Alexandra Féodorovna. An entire day was spent shooting the teaser trailer, featuring a sequence on the Quai de l’Amiral Courbet in Villefranche, which does not appear in the released film. The scene shows Freddy Benson (Steve Martin) and Lawrence Jamieson (Michael Caine) walking along a boardwalk, politely moving out of the way of other people. Freddy pushes an old lady into the water, and Lawrence shoves a kid's face into his cotton candy. Director Frank Oz has said that audiences were very surprised to learn that the scene was not part of the finished film.