| 1 | * AllStarCast: Creator/StephenBoyd, Creator/ErnestBorgnine, Music/TonyBennett, Creator/EdieAdams and [[spoiler:Music/FrankSinatra as himself.]] The list goes on. |
| 2 | * CreatorBacklash: |
| 3 | ** Creator/HarlanEllison made it '''very''' clear that he is not a fan of the film, which was his only feature screenwriting credit. |
| 4 | ** Tony Bennett (Hymie Kelly) reportedly hated it so much that it is the reason he opted never to do another movie where he wasn't [[AsHimself playing himself]]. |
| 5 | * FollowUpFailure: Director Russell Rouse and his writing partner Clarence Greene had previously won an actual Oscar for ''Film/PillowTalk''. They made one other film after this, ''The Caper of the Golden Bulls''. |
| 6 | * KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The film had a VHS release in the mid-1980s...and that was it for three decades. Creator/{{TCM}} plays the film occasionally, but is forced to use an older pan-and-scan master (unusual for the network). This is very telling of the film's current demand, because for a time, it was included in many "Worst Films of All Time" lists as well as the Medved brothers' ''Golden Turkey Awards'', but appears to have been overshadowed by more recent films that are a lot worse and more infamous. Ultimately, Kino Lorber released the film on Blu-Ray in February 2020, with a new 4K remaster, and two audio commentaries, with one of them featuring (of all people) Creator/PattonOswalt as a participant. |
| 7 | * RealitySubtext: Creator/PeterLawford's cameo as Steve Marks, a washed-up actor reduced to working as a restaurant host is sadly indicative of Lawford's real life situation at the time. After a falling out with Music/FrankSinatra got him "banished" from the Creator/RatPack, Lawford found on-screen work of any kind hard to come by, and he spent most of the last two decades of his life appearing in low-budget films and guest spots on TV series. |
| 8 | * StarDerailingRole: For Stephen Boyd. Before making the film, he was a regular actor in a number of big Hollywood productions (such as ''[[Film/BenHur1959 Ben-Hur]]'' and ''Film/TheFallOfTheRomanEmpire''). Outside of a few films shot before this one opened, Boyd was stuck in smaller films for the rest of his career (he died in 1977 while in talks to make a possible comeback with ''Film/TheWildGeese''). |
| 9 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/HarlanEllison revealed in the documentary ''Dreams With Sharp Teeth'' that he wrote the screenplay with Creator/{{Steve McQueen|Actor}} and Creator/PeterFalk in mind to play the leads. |
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