Lina Wertmüller signed a contract with Warner Bros. to make four films and her first for them was her first English language film: A Night Full of Rain. The film was not a success and Warner cancelled the contract.
The painting at the end of the opening sequence is Giorgio de Chirico's "The Great Metaphyiscian" (1917).
The Calley Trial was about the former United States Army officer and war criminal William Calley who was convicted by court-martial for the premeditated killings of 200-400 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre on March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War.