Line #5 Trivia/TakeTheMoneyAndRun


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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