The Diner's Club Card soon became a cultural icon. Hollywood cashed in on the "charged - it craze" with the 1962 movie The Man from the Diner's Club. In it, an employee at Diner's Club issues a credit card to well - known gangster and has to get it back in order to keep his job. The Ideal Toy Corporation joined in the trend when it ceated a board game called the Diner's club game. The idea of the credit card quickly expanded outside the United States. The Diner's Club Card became the first international charge card in 1952 with franchises in Canada, France, and cuba In 1955, Western Airlines became the first airline to accept the Diner's Club Card.