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* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/SidneyLumet briefly explored the possibility of Peter Finch playing Max Schumacher and Creator/WilliamHolden playing Howard Beale. Holden preferred the role of Max and Finch was cast as Beale after Lumet discovered that he could do a convincing American accent.
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* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/SidneyLumet briefly explored the possibility of Peter Finch Creator/PeterFinch playing Max Schumacher and Creator/WilliamHolden playing Howard Beale. Holden preferred the role of Max and Finch was cast as Beale after Lumet discovered that he could do a convincing American accent.
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* DoingItForTheArt: Peter Finch was desperate to win the role of Howard Beale once he had read the script. He even offered to pay his own airfare to New York for the screen test.
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* DoingItForTheArt: Peter Finch Creator/PeterFinch was desperate to win the role of Howard Beale once he had read the script. He even offered to pay his own airfare to New York for the screen test.
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* FakeAmerican: Peter Finch, born in England, raised in Australia, and living in Jamaica at the time, as Howard Beale.
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* FakeAmerican: Peter Finch, Creator/PeterFinch, born in England, raised in Australia, and living in Jamaica at the time, as Howard Beale.
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* OneTakeWonder: According to Creator/SidneyLumet, the "Mad as Hell" speech was filmed in one and a half takes. Midway through the second take, Peter Finch abruptly stopped in exhaustion. Lumet was unaware of Finch's failing heart at the time, but in any case, did not ask for a third take. What's in the completed film is the second take for the first half of the speech, and the second half from the first take.
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* OneTakeWonder: According to Creator/SidneyLumet, the "Mad as Hell" speech was filmed in one and a half takes. Midway through the second take, Peter Finch Creator/PeterFinch abruptly stopped in exhaustion. Lumet was unaware of Finch's failing heart at the time, but in any case, did not ask for a third take. What's in the completed film is the second take for the first half of the speech, and the second half from the first take.
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* RealitySubtext: Like Max, Creator/WilliamHolden was in a MayDecemberRomance at the time (with future ''Series/HartToHart'' star Stefanie Powers). Peter Finch was also married to a woman who was a couple decades his junior.
* ThrowItIn: Beale's signature line was written as "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Peter Finch inadvertently said "I'm ''as'' mad as hell", and it stayed in the final cut.
* ThrowItIn: Beale's signature line was written as "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Peter Finch inadvertently said "I'm ''as'' mad as hell", and it stayed in the final cut.
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* RealitySubtext: Like Max, Creator/WilliamHolden was in a MayDecemberRomance at the time (with future ''Series/HartToHart'' star Stefanie Powers). Peter Finch Creator/PeterFinch was also married to a woman who was a couple decades his junior.
* ThrowItIn: Beale's signature line was written as "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"Peter Finch Creator/PeterFinch inadvertently said "I'm ''as'' mad as hell", and it stayed in the final cut.
* ThrowItIn: Beale's signature line was written as "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
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* PopCultureUrbanLegends: It's often claimed that a young Creator/TimRobbins plays one of the assassins in the final scene. Robbins (who would've still been in high school at the time) is on record denying this, but it's been propagated everywhere from [=IMDB=] to Turner Classic Movies.
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** Arthur Jensen was orginally played by veteran character actor Creator/RobertsBlossom (best known as Old Man Marley in ''Film/HomeAlone'', or as the older UFO witness on the highway, who later speaks about having seen a Bigfoot, in ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''). Blossom had previously played the ill-fated patient Guernsey in Chayefsky's ''Film/TheHospital''. Since Guernsey was another character who leads a deranged old man to cause mischief by giving him an apocalyptic sermon, Blossom as Jensen made sense on paper. But he got fired because Creator/PaddyChayefsky didn't like his performance, and, as producer, he outranked Creator/SidneyLumet, who thought Blossom was doing fine. Having bumped into Creator/RobertAltman during the shoot, Lumet mentioned the situation and Altman recommended Creator/NedBeatty as a replacement. Beatty had worked with Altman in ''Film/{{Nashville}}''.
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** Arthur Jensen was orginally played by veteran character actor Creator/RobertsBlossom (best known as Old Man Marley in ''Film/HomeAlone'', or as the older UFO witness on the highway, who later speaks about having seen a Bigfoot, in ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'').Creator/RobertsBlossom. Blossom had previously played the ill-fated patient Guernsey in Chayefsky's ''Film/TheHospital''. Since Guernsey was another character who leads a deranged old man to cause mischief by giving him an apocalyptic sermon, Blossom as Jensen made sense on paper. But he got fired because Creator/PaddyChayefsky didn't like his performance, and, as producer, he outranked Creator/SidneyLumet, who thought Blossom was doing fine. Having bumped into Creator/RobertAltman during the shoot, Lumet mentioned the situation and Altman recommended Creator/NedBeatty as a replacement. Beatty had worked with Altman in ''Film/{{Nashville}}''.
