As of 2023, Kelly's house at 120 St. Germain Ave. in San Francisco is still standing with the same architecture.
First of two B&W films Blake Edwards and Lee Remick collaborated on in 1962 that were set in San Francisco. The other, Días de vino y rosas (1962), earned Remick her sole Oscar® nomination, for Best Actress.
FBI agent John Ripley has appeared in film before. He was previously played by Broderick Crawford in the film Down Three Dark Streets (1954). The character was created by the husband-and-wife team of Gordon Gordon and Mildred Gordon, who signed their work simply The Gordons. They met as students at the University of Arizona, got married and worked as journalists before turning to crime fiction. Many of their 19 novels feature agent John Ripley and the stories had veracity thanks to Gordon having been an FBI agent, working home-front counterintelligence during World War II.
They'd been paid $5000 for the rights to their first book "Make Haste to Live" and later learned that the screenwriter had been paid $40,000 to adapt it. They made it a condition of selling any of their novels to the movies that they be allowed to adapt the book to the screen.
They'd been paid $5000 for the rights to their first book "Make Haste to Live" and later learned that the screenwriter had been paid $40,000 to adapt it. They made it a condition of selling any of their novels to the movies that they be allowed to adapt the book to the screen.
Most of the facts in the baseball game (shown on the ticket stub) are correct---the Giants beat the Dodgers at Candlestick Park on August 18, 1961. Don Drysdale was pitching and John Roseboro catching for L.A. Harvey Kuenn did hit a double, and José Pagán was playing shortstop.
Several elements of this film inspired scenes in David Lynch projects. To begin with, there is the sign at the beginning of the film which served as obvious inspiration for the title card and setting of Twin Peaks (1990). Also, a bit later, when Kelly is in her garage, the killer mentions that he has "killed twice before"---this is something which "Bob," the supposed killer from "Twin Peaks" also mentions. This scene also has resemblances to a scene in Lynch's Salvaje de corazón (1990) where Willem Dafoe's character, Bobby Peru, has Lula Fortune in his grasp and is talking to her similarly. Later in the film, the killer is called Garland "Red" Lynch. The resemblance to David Lynch's name is something which the director no doubt noticed, as he also named a character in "Twin Peaks" after him (Major Garland Briggs).