In an interview with the New York Times in 1981, Donald Sutherland claimed he took the role because he " was broke, and needed the money ".
Contains footage of the extremely rare early Nintendo arcade game Wild Gunman (1974), which used 16mm projectors for game-play.
The smooth segue between scenes in which the action in the ending scene is completed in the next beginning scene was used once before for a different reason in the TWILIGHT ZONE episode "Deaths Head Revisited."
When IRA (Keith Knight) was being interviewed by Jane Beardsley (Susan Anspach) he performed a dead-on impersonation of Curly of the 3 Stooges. In an earlier scene, the Vespucci nephews engaged in 3 Stooges antics in the basement trying to stop the overflowing toilet.