* HarsherInHindsight: Fry shooting people in a theater during a violent scene onscreen is quite uncomfortably reminiscent of the Aurora theater massacre that happend during a screening of ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' 70 years later.
* OneSceneWonder: Quite a few, as Kane bumps into one endearingly oddball character after another. These include a bored truck driver who's thrilled to be pulled over by the cops, a blind piano player who strives to see the goodness in everyone, and an argumentative sideshow troupe.
* RetroactiveRecognition:
** Creator/RobertMitchum makes an early film appearance as a passerby on the stairs in the factory.
** Will Lee, the future [[Series/SesameStreet Mr. Hooper]], plays the factory worker with the bandaged hands who gets questioned by police after the fire.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Bones comparing the arguments of the circus performers to the fractured opinions over the current world situation, and the democracy-versus-fascism debate between Kane and Tobin, clearly mark it as a product of the period just after the United States entered UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Apparently, those scenes were Creator/DorothyParker's main contributions to the screenplay.
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