Robby Benson sang the theme song "Adios Yesterday".
The casting of Robby Benson as a Chicano put this film at the top of many Worst Lists in the decades that followed. It shared the honor with other examples of horrible ethnic casting, notably Mickey Rooney as a Japanese houseboy in "Breakfast at Tiffany's".
One of a number of 1979 "gang movies" which were first released in that year. The pictures included Walk Proud (1979), वॉरियर्स (1979), Boulevard Nights (1979) and The Wanderers (1979). Then hot on the heels in 1980 came John Carpenter's Escape from New York (1981).
Pepe Serna, Angel Salazar and Gary Carlos Cervantes would co-star 4 yrs later I. 1983's SCARFACE
Pepe Serna and Panchito Gomez would co-star 13yrs later! in 1992's American Me.