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Debbie Reynolds and Ruth Roman were considered to play Belle.
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This is the second collaboration between star Kirk Douglas and director Jeff Kanew. They previously worked together on "Eddie Macon's Run" (1983).
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Kirk Douglas came up with the idea for the mooning scene.
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Jeff Kanew did the voice of the parrot.
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Filming was very difficult for the 71-year-old Burt Lancaster, as he had undergone a quadruple heart bypass operation two years earlier. There was some question as to whether he would even get insurance for this film.
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Ernest Borgnine was originally considered to play Yablonski.
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The locomotive used was the real Southern Pacific Daylight 4449. During the crash scene, they used a life-size model of the SP 4449 to simulate the crash.
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Doyle L. McCormack, who played the train engineer, is the real-life engineer and chief mechanical officer of the SP #4449.
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Jim Carrey auditioned for the role of Richie Evans.
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The theme song was also recorded by Gladys Knight and Smokey Robinson.
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After the police fire at the train, Sgt. Deke Yablonski (Charles Durning) says, "What is this, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral?". Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas both starred in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957); Lancaster played Wyatt Earp, and Douglas played Doc Holliday in the classic western.
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At one point Tony Curtis was being considered for a role, possibly the Eli Wallach part originally intended for Adolph Caesar. Curtis had worked with Lancaster on Trapeze (1956) and Sweet Smell of Success (1957) while he had appeared with Kirk in The Vikings (1958) and Spartacus (1960). All three had appeared together in John Huston's underappreciated romp The List of Adrian Messenger (1963).
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Last of the seven films that Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster made together starting with I Walk Alone (1947)).
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Some crew members said that Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas did not talk to each other off the set.
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During the shootout on the train the Eli Wallach character says "top of the world ma". This is a reference to the famous James Cagney movie, White Heat (1949), released in 1949, and regarded as one of the great classic gangster movies.
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Adolph Caesar was signed on to play Leon Little. However, in the weeks of filming, Caesar died of a heart attack and Eli Wallach took over his role.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers played themselves in the movie. They were big on the local scene but wouldn't crack the big time until the album "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" in 1991.
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