The wax figures look like real people because they ARE real people. The original plan was to use actual wax figures, but they melted under the heat of the lights used at the time to film two-strip Technicolor.
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This movie's MacGuffin are some stolen papers, documents, plans, and ledgers, which are owned by Abner Procane (John Houseman). Interestingly, a few years before this movie was made, Houseman appeared in the The Paper Chase (1973), in which he won the Best Actor in a Supporting Role Academy Award. Charles Bronson's mission in this picture is to recover these papers, his charge being a kind of "paper chase" in a sense.
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This movie represents the first of ten teamings between producer Pancho Kohner and Charles Bronson. The others being The White Buffalo (1977), Love and Bullets (1979), 10 to Midnight (1983), The Evil That Men Do (1984), Murphy's Law (1986), Assassination (1987), Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987), Messenger of Death (1988), and Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989).
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