Yep, the hilarious part was looking at satellite dishes and hearing Morse in the background. Pretty good Morse though, obviously machine sent.
I thought Gene Hackman made the movie. He got the character he played just right IMHO.
It was not Morse code. It was radioteletype tones. It was still pretty funny because that is old technology also, but not near as old as ditty boppin morse code. The Automated Teletype paper tape is read and sent from a Transmitter Distributor attached to the TTY and then received and printed by a Reperforator. It is actually Frequency Shift Keying of Baudot Code riding a Clear Wave signal. Our military used the TTY's in torn tape relay centers. Back in my day we had advanced to using 12 or 24 channel tone packs around the world. We still monitored UPI and AP feeds this old way on our Collins R390 radio with CV89 FSK Converter and just for kicks (and training) we would dial up the Indian Government propaganda signal that ran a teletype feed on HF radio 7x24x365.