As a promotional gimmick, theaters showing the movie were given cardboard cutouts of Amin as well as bean bags. People going to see the movie were encouraged to hit the Amin cutout with the bean bags. Newspaper ads for the movie promoted the gimmick with the slogan "Vent your spleen! Bean Amin!"
In an episode of Film 2006, broadcast in the UK on 30th October 2006, Jonathan Ross claimed that he had appeared as an extra in this film 1981 movie as an Israeli soldier raiding Entebbe airport.
On the website grindhousedatabase.com, the picture of Idi Amin's face from the poster is used as the icon for Shocksploitation films.
The film's closing credits state: ''The Producers would like to thank the Government of the Republic of Kenya and Kenya Airways for all the help and assistance they gave to the making of this Motion Picture''.
The real life British reporter Denis Hills, who was saved from a death penalty when then British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan went personally to Uganda to represent him on his behalf, actually appears as himself in this film and features in a few scenes. Hills had once been sentenced to death by Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. It took two British envoys who brought an appeal from Queen Elizabeth II to spare Hills' life. They were forced to crawl on their knees through a low entrance to a hut where Amin received them. His life was spared one day before his scheduled execution.
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By what name was Amin - mielipuoli diktaattori (1981) officially released in Canada in English?
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