 Although the film takes place in New York, at least two sequences  were filmed in Los Angeles: the scene where Roy Scheider (qv)  meets Laurence Olivier (qv) was filmed in front of the red steps  statue in downtown Los Angeles in the Arco Plaza; and the library  scene where Dustin Hoffman (qv) meets Marthe Keller (qv) was  filmed at the Doheny Library on the University of Southern  California campus. Coincidentally, Hoffman filmed scenes on the same  campus ten years earlier in the landmark  _Graduate, The (1967)_ (qv).