- Do Not Do This Cool Thing: It's believed the sole reason why this film was originally rated R is because of a plot-relevant instance of falsely shouting "Fire!" in a theatre.
- Ensemble Dark Horse:
- Gromek is the film's best character by far, and the role was a highlight of Wolfgang Kieling's career (along with voicing Bert on Sesamstraße).
- Alfred Hitchcock himself viewed Countess Kuchinska as one, extending the sequence with her and giving Lila Kedrova third billing in the credits.
- Fan-Preferred Cut Content: Many lament that Bernard Herrmann's score
was thrown out in favour of the jazz score. - Retroactive Recognition: For German folks specifically. Professor Karl Manfred was played by Günter Strack, better known as attorney Dieter Renz in A Case for Two.
- Questionable Casting: Pairing the #1 and #9 top moneymaking movie stars of 1966 in a film made by a legendary director sounds great on paper. But, Paul Newman and Julie Andrews as love interests in a Cold War spy thriller? Universal, who insisted on the casting, did make a lot of money, but none of the principals were very happy with the finished product.
- Signature Scene: The Armstrong-Gromek fight. Even people who don't much like the film consider it a classic Hitchcock scene.
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