Stars Tony Danza and Danny DeVito were currently both appearing in the television series Taxi (1978) when this movie was made and first released. They appeared together in over one hundred episodes of the sitcom between 1978 and 1983. This movie is their only ever theatrical feature film collaboration.
During a scene involving the character of Bad Habit Frank Sivero) and his mobster buddies, the classic theme from El padrino (1972) is playing. The actor actually played Genco in El padrino (parte II) (1974).
Final theatrical feature film of actress Ruth Gillette who played Marianne. She continued to work in a handful of episodes for television series over the next five years.
Jeremy Joe Kronsberg focused the the movie's script on three of animal trainer Bobby Berosini's trained orangutans who were known as the "Orang-Utans".
The character names of the three orangutan primates were Pop, Tiga and Rusty. They were portrayed by Bobby Berosini's Orangutan / The Bob Berosini Orangutans.