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* AllStarCast: Including Creator/PaulNewman, {{Creator/Steve McQueen|Actor}}, Creator/WilliamHolden, Creator/FayeDunaway (prior to her [[Film/MommieDearest wire hanger days]]), Creator/FredAstaire, Creator/RichardChamberlain, Creator/RobertVaughn, Creator/RobertWagner, and UsefulNotes/OJSimpson (prior to his white Bronco days). Creator/JenniferJones was borderline, as she had been a star during TheForties and TheFifties, and this was one of her last films before retiring completely.

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* AllStarCast: Including Creator/PaulNewman, {{Creator/Steve McQueen|Actor}}, Creator/WilliamHolden, Creator/FayeDunaway (prior to her [[Film/MommieDearest wire hanger days]]), Creator/FredAstaire, Creator/SusanBlakely, Creator/RichardChamberlain, Creator/RobertVaughn, Creator/RobertWagner, and UsefulNotes/OJSimpson (prior to his white Bronco days). Creator/JenniferJones was borderline, as she had been a star during TheForties the [[TheForties 1940s]] and TheFifties, [[TheFifties '50s]] but had acted little since then, and indeed this was one of her last films before retiring completely.
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* StarDerailingRole: While the film itself was far from a failure and did wonders for Newman's career, its massive success resulted in Creator/SteveMcQueenActor, at the time the highest-paid and most desirable actor in Hollywood, deciding to take a four-year hiatus from acting, during which he turned down offers for the leading roles in ''Film/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest'', ''Film/TheBadNewsBears'', and even ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''. By the time he returned to the silver screen in 1978, the film industry had long since moved on to newer stars and the role offers had all but dried up. His first film after coming back, an adaptation of ''Theatre/AnEnemyOfThePeople'', tested so poorly that its release was initially canceled and while it was eventually "released" to one theater, it was entirely accidental due to someone sending them the wrong reels. His final two movies were ''Tom Horn'' and ''[[Film/TheHunter1980 The Hunter]]'', a Western and a car-based action film, which were closer to the roles people expected of him, but both failed critically and financially before he passed away from lung cancer in 1980.

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* StarDerailingRole: While the film itself was far from a failure and did wonders for Newman's career, its massive success resulted in Creator/SteveMcQueenActor, {{Creator/Steve McQueen|Actor}}, at the time the highest-paid and most desirable actor in Hollywood, deciding to take a four-year hiatus from acting, during which he turned down offers for the leading roles in ''Film/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest'', ''Film/TheBadNewsBears'', and even ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''. By the time he returned to the silver screen in 1978, the film industry had long since moved on to newer stars and the role offers had all but dried up. His first film after coming back, an adaptation of ''Theatre/AnEnemyOfThePeople'', tested so poorly that its release was initially canceled and while it was eventually "released" to one theater, it was entirely accidental due to someone sending them the wrong reels. His final two movies were ''Tom Horn'' and ''[[Film/TheHunter1980 The Hunter]]'', a Western and a car-based action film, which were closer to the roles people expected of him, but both failed critically and financially before he passed away from lung cancer in 1980.
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* StarDerailingRole: While the film itself was far from a failure and did wonders for Newman's career, it's massive success resulted in Creator/SteveMcQueen, at the time the highest-paid and most desirable actor in Hollywood, deciding to take a four-year haitus from acting, during which he turned down offers for the leading roles in ''Film/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest'', ''Film/TheBadNewsBears'', and even ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''. By the time he returned to the silver screen in 1978, the film industry had long since moved on to newer stars and the role offers had all but dried up. His first film after coming back, an adaptation of ''Theatre/AnEnemyOfThePeople'', tested so poorly that it's release was initally canceled and while it was eventually "released" to one theater, it was entirely accidental due to someone sending them the wrong reels. His final two movies were ''Tom Horn'' and ''[[Film/TheHunter1980 The Hunter]]'', a Western and a car-based action film, which were closer to the roles people expected of him, but both failed critically and financially before he passed away from lung cancer in 1980.

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* StarDerailingRole: While the film itself was far from a failure and did wonders for Newman's career, it's its massive success resulted in Creator/SteveMcQueen, Creator/SteveMcQueenActor, at the time the highest-paid and most desirable actor in Hollywood, deciding to take a four-year haitus hiatus from acting, during which he turned down offers for the leading roles in ''Film/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest'', ''Film/TheBadNewsBears'', and even ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''. By the time he returned to the silver screen in 1978, the film industry had long since moved on to newer stars and the role offers had all but dried up. His first film after coming back, an adaptation of ''Theatre/AnEnemyOfThePeople'', tested so poorly that it's its release was initally initially canceled and while it was eventually "released" to one theater, it was entirely accidental due to someone sending them the wrong reels. His final two movies were ''Tom Horn'' and ''[[Film/TheHunter1980 The Hunter]]'', a Western and a car-based action film, which were closer to the roles people expected of him, but both failed critically and financially before he passed away from lung cancer in 1980.
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* ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' creator Gosho Aoyama cites this movie as a personal favorite, and part of the inspiration for the series' first movie, ''[[Anime/DetectiveConanFilm01TheTimeBombedSkyscraper The Time-Bombed Skyscraper]]''.

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* ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' ''Manga/CaseClosed'' creator Gosho Aoyama cites this movie as a personal favorite, and part of the inspiration for the series' first movie, ''[[Anime/DetectiveConanFilm01TheTimeBombedSkyscraper The Time-Bombed Skyscraper]]''.
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** Creator/WilliamHolden referred to the film as "lousy". He complained about his part - "I spend all of the time talking on the phone."

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** Creator/WilliamHolden referred to the film as "lousy". He also complained about his part - "I spend all of the time talking on the phone."

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