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Most of the action of the film takes place on the west side of Park Avenue just to the north of 116th Street.
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The first US film to show a nude woman from the waist up and be granted a Production Code Seal.
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In a 1999 interview with Robert Osborne, Rod Steiger said he based the silent scream at the end of the film on the faces in Pablo Picasso's masterpiece "Guernica".
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While walking the streets of New York City, Nazerman passes a theater advertising The L-Shaped Room, a film that featured Brock Peters, who plays Rodriguez.
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The music on the radio in the scene between Ortiz and his girlfriend is composer Quincy Jones' "Soul Bossa Nova," which would later be used in the Austin Powers films.
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