Man of the Moment – CASINO

The scene, Capture 3, of Norman singing to a lady on a passenger boat on Lake Geneva, is clearly studio based with back projection.

One of the buildings in the backgound has a sign on the roof saying “Casino” and I wondering if this was the one made famous in the Deep Purple song “Smoke on the water”, I did some digging.

After a bit of digging, it looks as if it is…..
Here is Youtube footage showing a series of stills from during and after the fire in Dec 1971 (there is audio too, at 1m 25s in there is a shout of “Fire!”)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD3SBLkjq1I

and this site has some other stills, including a colour one of the building prior to the fire…..it’s the same one as in the film. Scroll down to the picture below the Machine Head album cover.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/12/4/1041900/-Top-Comments-Smoke-on-the-Water-Edition