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Although father and son in real-life, Clint Eastwood and Kyle Eastwood do not appear as such in this movie. Instead, they are uncle and nephew.
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This movie was released two years after its source novel of the same name by Clancy Carlile was published. Carlile also wrote the screenplay.
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During the making of this movie Clint Eastwood met Megan Rose, a story editor and analyst with whom he began an intermittent affair. Rose told biographer Patrick McGilligan that she had been intimate with Eastwood "twelve to fifteen times" over a five-year span.
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Marty Robbins: The country and western music legend as Smoky.
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In 1961, Clint Eastwood cut a single, "Unknown Girl", the first of three, the two others being recorded over the next two years, along with a full long-play 1963 album titled "Rawhide (1959)'s Clint Eastwood Sings Cowboy Favorites". The other singles were called "Rowdy" and "For You, For Me, For Evermore". Later, in 1981, Eastwood released a single titled "Cowboy in a Three Piece Suit".
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James Stewart was first choice for the role of Grandpa, but turned it down.
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The opening sequences were very similar to the Clint Eastwood movie, The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976).
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Ray Price: The country and western music legend as a Bob Wills Singer.
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Clint Eastwood sings in this movie and previously sang in Paint Your Wagon (1969), where he sang the songs "Elisa", "Gold Fever", "I Talk to the Trees", and a duet with Lee Marvin called "Best Things". According to ClintEastwood.Net, the songs "were mostly staged and sometimes simply played over the other action, almost as if they were a kind of narration." Eastwood is also heard on the soundtrack for Kelly's Heroes (1970), where he sings the songs "Burning Bridges" and its B-side, "When I Loved Her". Eastwood's voice can also be heard on such country and western recordings as Randy Travis' "Smokin' the Hive" and T.G. Sheppard's "Make My Day".
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In the documentary Biography: Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso (1994), Eastwood states how this was the first movie he ever made about a loser, a person who didn't want to be a winner, a theme he says he has visited several times since.
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One of two Clint Eastwood movies released in 1982. The other being Firefox (1982).
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Clint Eastwood's second movie as a producer and ninth movie as a director.
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The name of the record company was "Burnside Records".
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Porter Wagoner: The country and western music legend as Dusty.
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Second of two Hollywood movies in a year with the wording "Honkytonk" in the title. The first being Honky Tonk Freeway (1981).
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Clint Eastwood's tenth movie for Warner Brothers.
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