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1* TheCastShowoff: Creator/JohnForsythe first appears in the film with his character singing the Raymond Scott-Mac David ditty "Flaggin' the Train to Tuscaloosa".
2* CreatorsOddball: Hitchcock's only full-fledged comedy (albeit a BlackComedy) after he'd cemented his Master of Suspense title for good, made as a BreatherEpisode for himself after the demanding shoots of his previous few films.
3* StarMakingRole: For Creator/ShirleyMacLaine.
4* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Hitchcock's preference was to reunite the leads of ''Film/ToCatchAThief'' and have Creator/CaryGrant as Sam and Creator/GraceKelly as Jennifer, but Grant was too expensive for what Hitchcock envisioned as a smaller-budget film, and Kelly had contract issues with her home studio Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer. For a while Hitchcock toyed with another ''To Catch a Thief'' castmember, Brigitte Auber, as Jennifer, before realizing a French actress in a movie set in Vermont wouldn't really work. Creator/WilliamHolden was the next choice for Sam, but things didn't work out.
5* Shortly after the release of the film, a novelty song called "The Trouble with Harry" was released by Alfi and Harry -- actually [[Franchise/AlvinAndTheChipmunks Ross Bagdasarian Sr.]] (who'd been in ''Film/RearWindow'') under a pseudonym. Despite claiming to be "inspired" by the movie, [[InNameOnly the title is the only connection between the two]].[[note]]The song consists of "Alfi" being annoyed at "Harry" for playing the same tune on his piano over and over.[[/note]] Still, it somehow managed to chart at #44 on the ''Billboard'' in the US and at #15 in the UK, and was even [[CoverVersion covered]] by Les Baxter.
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