Wissenswertes

The last film from the legendary producer Pandro S. Berman. It was also the final credit for the equally legendary cameraman William H. Daniels, who died a little over six weeks before the film's US opening.

Paula Prentiss posed topless for a photo for Playboy in a bathtub with Elliott Gould to promote the film.

Paula Prentiss appeared nude in a scene cut from the film, but it can be seen in the trailer.

Joel Lieber, the author of the original novel and co-author of the screenplay, committed suicide in 1971, a few months after this film's catastrophic release.

A colossal flop, both with critics and at the box-office. It never got any cinema exhibition in the UK, and, after more than fifty years, has never yet been shown on British television. It damaged the burgeoning career of star Elliott Gould and Genevieve Waite's only subsequent appearance was in a short film of many years later.