The Fugitive - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[liam]

The river was cold, so the crew kept tubs of hot water off camera to keep Harrison Ford warm.

[javier]

Harrison Ford's name is slipped into the background of the movie in two different scenes. As Gerard arrives at the train crash at 20:23, you can see a Ford truck in the background. At 1:01:24 there is an aerial shot of the Harrison Hotel. Harrison Ford, of course, is the star of the Fugitive.

[leo]

The scene where Kimble is running through the St. Patrick's Day parade was not scripted. This was a later addition by Andrew Davis. Davis, a native of the city, really wanted to capture the parade and was granted permission from the mayor's office to film the day of the parade. The entire sequence was shot with a hand-held steady cam. Without rehearsal, Ford and Jones just went out into the crowd and did their thing, with camera operators running around trying to keep up. Ford observed that since his character was keeping a low profile, it meant he himself didn't stand out much and lasted several minutes in the crowd before being recognized.

[chad]

In both her scenes, Jane Lynch (Dr. Kathy Wahlund) is wearing "Hate is Not a Family Value" and other LGBT-inclusive pins on her lab coat, including an AIDS ribbon.

[jesus]

The dam used in the exterior shots is Cheoah Dam, Tapoco, Graham County, North Carolina. The dam can be viewed clearly from North Carolina State Highway 129, just north of Tapoco.

[jeffrey]

Joe Pantoliano (Cosmo Renfro) admitted in an interview on Gilbert Gottfried's podcast that he wanted to be sure his character lived in case there was a sequel and he even did additional groaning and leg movements to showcase that he survived at the end. It worked and was in the sequel, U.S. Marshals.

[tom]

Neil Flynn later appeared on Scrubs (2001), in which his character doesn't like to tell people that he appeared in this film.