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* UncreditedRole: Creator/AlfieBass as Potseikin.
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* RomanceOnTheSet: Creator/IanHolm would claim in his memoirs that Frankenheimer had an affair with the daughter of screenwriter Creator/DaltonTrumbo.
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* DeletedRole: Creator/JackGilford apparently had a part in the movie that was cut out.
* HostilityOnTheSet: While Creator/JohnFrankenheimer had a good time working with Creator/AlanBates (he'd later call Bates the best young actor he ever worked with at the time, and praised not only his acting but is professionalism in how he worked with the other actors), he and Creator/DirkBogarde clashed - Frankenheimer was angry that Bogarde would sabotage takes by not learning his lines, while Bogarde would later refer to Frankenheimer as "Frankenstein".
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/{{MGM}} originally wanted Creator/PeterSellers in the lead role, but Frankenheimer vetoed the idea. Frankenheimer himself wanted Creator/RichardBurton for the role.
** Creator/ShelleyWinters was originally intended to have a starring role.
** The original cut of the movie ran four hours and forty-five minutes.

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