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• James Caan walked off the production the day before filming started. John Frankenheimer had to film around his absent lead character until Michael Caine was hired as a replacement. With time on his hands director Frankenheimer shot extra footage of the assassins in the Geneva ferry scene.
  
  
• The voice of Bernie Sussman on Holcroft's answering machine is director John Frankenheimer.
  
  
• The scene where Michael Caine tells Victoria Tennant that he cannot drive a car was written especially for the actor who does not drive.
  
  
• Although the exterior of the Banque de Geneva was shot in that city although the entrance was shot in Zurich, the lobby in Berlin, and the vault interior in London.
  
  
• John Frankenheimer admitted to having a crush on Lilli Palmer when she was appearing in The Four Poster and returned to see her numerous times in the play. He confessed his youthful infatuation to her when they worked together on The Holcroft Covenant (1985) and complimented her beauty despite the actress being in her seventies at the time.
  
  
• Director John Frankenheimer had Michael Caine use a remote to access the calls on the answering machine despite the fact that no such a device has ever existed. Frankenheimer explained that it freed the actor to be able to move around the room.
  
  
• The New York scenes, including Michael Caine's apartment and Lilli Palmer's bookstore, were shot in London.
  
  

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