Wissenswertes

This is the final film of both Robert Webber and Karl Malden.

This was Leslie Nielsen's final dramatic role.

Mark Rydell was the first director attached to this film, with Barbra Streisand interested in playing Claudia. However, Rydell cast the younger Debra Winger instead. Then Streisand came back after Winger pulled out. Then Rydell left the project, and Streisand hired Martin Ritt. Streisand says she was genuinely frightened of Leslie Nielsen, who managed to convince her he was dangerous. She says she wishes she had "fought back" more in their dramatic sequence together, but that he really did scare her.

For her role in this film, Barbra Streisand became the first actress to be paid $5 million.

It was while filming this movie that Leslie Nielsen was invited to reprise his role as Det. Frank Drebin in Die nackte Kanone (1988), a call that Nielsen admitted he had been hoping for since the end of Die nackte Pistole (1982).

Leslie Nielsen: As Allen Green.