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2 unusual facts about Fruit machine


Fruit machine

Slot machine, often called "fruit machine", particularly in the UK

The Fruit Machine, a 1988 British film thriller released as Wonderland in the US


Nathan Blake

Before breaking through as a footballer, Blake fell foul of the law and was prosecuted for theft from a fruit machine in London.


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Bernard Wrigley

Wrigley has made many appearances in British TV programmes such as Phoenix Nights (where he was Dodgy Eric, who sold club owner Brian Potter a Das Boot fruit machine, a bucking bronco and an obscene bouncy castle), Emmerdale (as eccentric rocket inventor Barry Clegg), and his sixth character in Coronation Street (as the Rev. Marvin Winstanley, the dodgy internet priest Roy and Hayley approached to arrange their wedding).

Greek Buck

Pyle and Zealley also composed the scores to several films by John Greyson (including Proteus, The Law of Enclosures and the short films This is Nothing and Herr), Sarah Polley (I Shout Love) and Wrik Mead (Fruit Machine, Hoolboom, Camp).