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The next of our articles looking back at the filming of Revolution, starring Al Pacino, in the 1980s… More than one thousand local people – many of them unemployed or retired – jumped at the chance to be an extra in Revolution, especially as the going rate was £20 per day. In early March when Goldcrest Productions started to put up the film sets around Lynn’s Custom House area, the company’s casting team also began their work by contacting those lucky enough to have been chosen as extras. The West Norfolk film hopefuls were directed to a huge wardrobe department at Bishop’s Lynn House in the T…