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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/ClintEastwood considered directing the film himself.
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* NoStuntDouble: Creator/ClintEastwood actually performed the stunt where he leapt onto a speeding car and hooks his leg inside the car window while holding onto the door handle.

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* ActorSharedBackground: Creator/ClintEastwood is also a veteran of the Korean War.

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* FollowTheLeader: The film was greenlit because {{road movie}}s were popular following ''Film/EasyRider'' and Creator/ClintEastwood wanted to make one.
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* AwardSnub: Creator/ClintEastwood's acting performance was noted by critics to the extent that Clint himself believed it was Oscar worthy.
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* AwardSnub: Creator/ClintEastwood's acting performance was noted by critics to the extent that Clint himself believed it was Oscar worthy.



* InvisibleAdvertising: The film did respectable box office business, and the studio profited, but Creator/ClintEastwood vowed never to work with the movie's distributor Creator/UnitedArtists again due to what he felt was bad promotion.



* WagTheDirector: Creator/ClintEastwood didn't like to do more than three takes for a shot. Creator/JeffBridges said, "I would always go to Mike and say 'I think I can do one more. I got an idea.' And Mike would say 'I gotta ask Clint.' Clint would say, 'Give the kid a shot.'" Moreover, First assistant director Charles Okun added, "Clint was the only guy that ever said 'No'. Michael said 'OK, let's go for another take. 'If it was take four, Clint would say 'No we got enough. We got it.'...And if [Cimino] took too long to get it ready, [Eastwood] would say, 'It's good, let's go.'"

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* WagTheDirector: Creator/ClintEastwood didn't like to do more than three takes for a shot. Creator/JeffBridges said, "I would always go to Mike and say 'I think I can do one more. I got an idea.' And Mike would say 'I gotta ask Clint.' Clint would say, 'Give the kid a shot.'" Moreover, First assistant director Charles Okun added, "Clint was the only guy that ever said 'No'. Michael said 'OK, let's go for another take. 'If it was take four, Clint would say 'No we got enough. We got it.'...And if [Cimino] took too long to get it ready, [Eastwood] would say, 'It's good, let's go.'"'"
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* ActorSharedBackground: Creator/ClintEastwood is also a veteran of the Korean War.
* AwesomeDearBoy: Creator/ClintEastwood did this picture because he wanted to make a road movie.
* BreakthroughHit: For Creator/MichaelCimino as a director.
* DuelingStarsMovie
* RealLifeRelative: Creator/ClintEastwood's son Kyle is in the film. Because he said one word of dialogue, which was "Hi!", this action classified him, in terms of the actor's guild rules, as being in the dialogue category, and as such, had to be paid scale, which was at the time, US $128.
* WagTheDirector: Creator/ClintEastwood didn't like to do more than three takes for a shot. Creator/JeffBridges said, "I would always go to Mike and say 'I think I can do one more. I got an idea.' And Mike would say 'I gotta ask Clint.' Clint would say, 'Give the kid a shot.'" Moreover, First assistant director Charles Okun added, "Clint was the only guy that ever said 'No'. Michael said 'OK, let's go for another take. 'If it was take four, Clint would say 'No we got enough. We got it.'...And if [Cimino] took too long to get it ready, [Eastwood] would say, 'It's good, let's go.'"

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