1 | !!Trivia for the film: |
2 | * ActorSharedBackground: Virgil Starkwell was born on December 1, 1935. This is Creator/WoodyAllen's actual date of birth. |
3 | * BillingDisplacement: TV ads for the film when it aired put Creator/LouiseLasser on equal billing with Creator/WoodyAllen. She had one cameo. |
4 | * BreakthroughHit: For Creator/WoodyAllen as a full-fledged filmmaker. |
5 | * CaliforniaDoubling: Although set in New Jersey, the film was shot in San Francisco. |
6 | * CastTheExpert: Micil Murphy returned to prison for a role in the film. He had become an actor after being paroled from San Quentin in 1966 after serving five and a half years for armed robbery. |
7 | * CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/WoodyAllen wanted to cast Creator/LouiseLasser as his love interest (who is called Louise), but she was a screen unknown. He did, however, cast her in a comic interview scene as a neighbor stunned to learn that the "idiot" she knew was actually a criminal mastermind. Ironically, TV ads for the film when it aired did put Lasser on equal billing with Allen, possibly because she was better known in television thanks to ''Series/MaryHartmanMaryHartman''. |
8 | * CompletelyDifferentTitle: |
9 | ** In Spanish, while the film was released in Spain under a faithful translation of the title, in Latin America it was released as ''Robó, huyó y lo pescaron'' ("He stole, he fled, and he was caught"). |
10 | ** ''Brainiac wanted for robbery'' in Greece. |
11 | * CreatorCouple: Creator/WoodyAllen's then-wife Creator/LouiseLasser appears as an interviewee. |
12 | * ExecutiveMeddling: One of the more interesting [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools positive]] examples. The entire movie was restructured after its first screening because the executives ''hated'' the original cut but saw its potential. They hired [[MrFixit Ralph Rosenblum]] to serve as “editorial supervisor” to make the movie funnier, thus starting a long-lasting work relationship between Woody Allen and Rosenblum which would eventually [[Film/AnnieHall give the latter an editing BAFTA.]] |
13 | * HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: Creator/WoodyAllen encouraged his cast to improvise, often shooting as many as three impromptu gags for each scene. |
14 | * HeyItsThatPlace: On their first date, Virgil takes Louise to dinner at Ernie's, the restaurant made famous by ''Film/{{Vertigo}}''. |
15 | * ProductionPosse: This was the first of several Creator/WoodyAllen films to be edited by Ralph Rosenblum. |
16 | * TechnologyMarchesOn: One of the film's big laugh lines comes when Virgil, bluffing his way through a job interview, is asked if he's "ever had any experience running a high-speed digital electronic computer", and answers in the affirmative, adding, "My aunt has one." |
17 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: |
18 | ** The original cut of the film had Louise and Virgil dying [[LastStand in a shootout with police.]] This was deemed [[MoodWhiplash way too dark]], and Ralph Rosenblum would later call it [[DudeNotFunny "grotesque and offensive]]". Said ending would have been followed by a brief humorous scene at his funeral when his wife hears him whisper from below ground, "Get me out." |
19 | ** Creator/WoodyAllen asked Creator/JerryLewis to direct. Jerry was busy with his own projects and suggested to Woody that he direct it himself. |
20 | ** To really capture the documentary feel of the film, Allen wanted to shoot it in black and white, but was overruled by the studio. |
21 | ** In the initial drafts, Virgil was named [[TheDanza Woody]]. |
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