Trivia / Suddenly

• Acting for Two: Paul Frees plays Benny, and also does the voice of the TV baseball announcer.
• Bury Your Art: According to Tom Santopietro's Sinatra in Hollywood, Frank Sinatra had the film pulled from circulation when he learned that Lee Harvey Oswald watched it just before fatally shooting John F. Kennedy in 1963. Although Sinatra previously switched to the Republican party after being snubbed by Kennedy (who bailed out of a planned visit to his house at the advice of Henry Petersen, citing Sinatra's alleged mafia connections), the assassination deeply upset him to the point where he reportedly cried in his room for three days straight. The film wouldn't be distributed again until it entered the Public Domain in the 1980s.
• Fake American: If you wondered why a TV repairman in rural California has an Irish accent, it's because Jud was played by James O'Hara (under his then-Stage Name James Lilburn), the younger brother of Maureen O'Hara.
• Playing Against Type: You might assume that Sterling Hayden would play the unhinged assassin and Frank Sinatra would play the determined sheriff, but it's the other way around.

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