According to Gene Wilder's autobiography "Kiss Me Like A Stranger" (2005), this was the picture in which he and Gilda Radner (who was married to G.E. Smith at the time) met. The two, who would later marry, quickly became friends.
This was to be another Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor star teaming, but according to dvdverdict.com, for some reason, Pryor backed out, and his part was re-written to be a female, and it went to Gilda Radner.
A financial disaster at the box office, Gene Wilder said it was one of the worst movies in which he had ever starred.
The characters Kate Hellman and Michael Jordon in this movie were played by Gilda Radner and Gene Wilder respectively. In real life, Radner, who was already married, and Wilder fell in love, and later Radner divorced her husband and married Wilder.
One of five movies in which Gene Wilder played a man wrongly accused of committing a crime. The others being Trans-Amerika-Express (1976), Ein Rabbi im Wilden Westen (1979), Zwei wahnsinnig starke Typen (1980), and Die Glücksjäger (1989).