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• Director Cameo: ['Don Siegel (I)'] a table tennis player.
  
  
• Working title: "The Last of the Independents".
  
  
• Joe Conforte, the owner of Mustang Ranch, has a cameo as himself.
  
  
• A yellow Lincoln Continental sedan is used during a major plot in the film, during the bank heist. This particular scene is similar in Telefon (1977), where a yellow Lincoln Continental is used during the attempted bombing of the Hyatt Regency in Houston, Texas (actually San Francisco, California, where the film took place).
  
  
• Charley's old mobile home was located near the home of well known Nevada artist Afton Frederick, who allowed the use of her home for some exterior shots. Her husband Cliff Frederick helped the crew with the night security of the old Varrick mobile home, because the roof of Varrick's home was fully removed for the ease of the camera and lighting work inside. The weather was extremely warm during the filming, which lasted seven weeks in the Dayton, Carson City, and Genoa, Nevada area.
  
  
• The crop duster that Varrick (Walter Matthau) attempts to escape in at the end of the movie was destroyed in Oakdale, California on 31 December 1976 during a crop dusting operation. Upon starting a swath run the pilot of the BOEING A75N1 failed to see and avoid wires and crashed. The 33 year old pilot was killed.
  
  
• The last film of veteran character actor Tom Tully.
  
  
• The last film for Bob Steele.
  
  
• Stuntman Craig R. Baxley plays a character named van Sickle which appears to be a tribute to longtime stuntman Dale van Sickle.
  
  
• The braided wedding bands worn by Walter Matthau and Jacqueline Scott are the same as those worn by Charles Bronson and Lee Remick in Telefon (1977) also directed by 'Don Siegel (I)'.
  
  
• Character Maynard Boyle's line, "They're gonna strip you naked and go to work on you with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch," is paraphrased in Pulp Fiction (1994) by character Marsalus Wallace.
  
  

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