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| 2 | * BackedByThePentagon: |
| 3 | ** Definitely not, for obvious reasons; though as mentioned on [[Literature/SevenDaysInMay the main page]], UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy gave the movie his covert support. |
| 4 | ** This caused Creator/JohnFrankenheimer to resort to RefugeInAudacity to get a needed shot of "Jiggs" Casey entering the Pentagon, which the Pentagon refused permission for obvious reasons [[note]]while dislike of the subject matter was no doubt part of their refusal, the Pentagon forbids filming of its entrances in most cases for security reasons[[/note]]. So, he got Creator/KirkDouglas in full uniform and walked him up the steps of the Pentagon while filming from a parked car. Quite coincidentally, a couple of soldiers were walking down the steps as Douglas was ascending them. Not realizing who they were passing by as they had zero reason to believe that Kirk Douglas would be walking in the uniform of a Marine colonel up the Pentagon stairs, they gave what they took to be a superior officer a genuine salute, which Douglas, not missing a beat, returned. [[ThrowItIn Needless to say, this bit of unscripted and unplanned verisimilitude made it into the film.]] |
| 5 | * [[BannedInChina Banned in Brazil]]: The UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}}ian government banned the film because its plot was too similar to the MilitaryCoup the country had just gone through in RealLife. The novel had just been released prior to the coup and so squeaked through to publication. |
| 6 | * CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/KirkDouglas was originally going to play General Scott until Creator/BurtLancaster signed up. Douglas reportedly had to persuade Lancaster to play Scott, as Lancaster, a liberal Democrat as was Douglas, worried that Scott's portrayal could be seen as unfair to [[WorthyOpponent Republicans]]. Douglas convinced him that Scott was not ObviouslyEvil, but instead a morally-conflicted WellIntentionedExtremist, at which point Lancaster signed on. |
| 7 | * DuelingStarsMovie: Kirk Douglas vs. Creator/BurtLancaster. |
| 8 | * ThoseTwoActors: This is the third of three movies Creator/KirkDouglas and George Macready appeared in together, after ''Film/DetectiveStory'' and ''Film/PathsOfGlory''. |
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