The dragon in the film is not a miniature. It is a full-scale puppet 60 feet long.
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Was filmed in Dubuque, Iowa.
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The Wikipedia website states that, according to an article entitled 'Stallone Wins Heavyweight-Purse' by Gregg Kilday published in the April 2, 1977 edition of the Los Angeles Times, reportedly, screenwriter Joe Eszterhas was paid 85,000 dollars for writing the original screenplay while Stallone received 150,000 dollars also for screen-writing and 350,000 dollars for acting, totaling to a 500,000 dollar pay packet for Stallone for the picture.
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Actors Richard Herd, Peter Donat, and James Karen also appeared in The China Syndrome (1979).
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The Cleveland scenes were filmed in Dubuque Among the reasons given for the selection of Dubuque was the absence of television antennas that would conflict with the look of the 1930s, the era in which the movie's action was to take place.
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One of several collaborations of Norman Jewison and Producer Patrick J. Palmer.
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The picture is loosely based on the Teamsters Union and the life of union boss Jimmy Hoffa who fourteen years later would himself be the subject of the movie biopic Hoffa (1992), where the title character would be portrayed by Jack Nicholson.
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The only film where Sylvester Stallone's character dies at the end.
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Norman Jewison had previously auditioned and then rejected Sylvester Stallone for the role of James Caan''s sidekick in Jewison's previous picture Rollerball (1975).
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Almost fifty American cities were location scouted for principal shooting until the town of Dubuque, Iowa, with a population of around 60,700, was chosen by director Norman Jewison and his staff. Dubuque, Iowa was chosen because it could resemble Cleveland, Ohio during the 1930s and 1940s.
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Second of four collaborations of Rod Steiger and Norman Jewison. Jewison directed Steiger in this film as well as in The Hurricane (1999), and In the Heat of the Night (1967), the latter of which Steiger won the Best Actor in a Leading Role Academy Award. Steiger also co-starred in the Jewison produced The January Man (1989).
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First of two collaborations of Sylvester Stallone and Brian Dennehy who both later starred in First Blood (1982) four years later. The pair are both also credited with thank you credits for Son of Rambow (2007).
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First of two collaborations of Rod Steiger and Sylvester Stallone who were reunited sixteen years later for The Specialist (1994).
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Campaign banners for Johnny Kovak (Sylvester Stallone) boasted such headline slogans as "KOVAK", "Win with Kovak" and "Johnny's Our Man!".
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Norman Jewison ran into Sylvester Stallone a day after Jewison attended a private pre-released screening of Rocky (1976). Jewison said: "After predicting that Rocky (1976) would be a big success, something that many were questioning at the time, I asked him (Stallone) if he'd like to read the script of my next picture [F.I.S.T. (1978)]. He took it home and called me the next day to say that he wanted to do it. All we had was a verbal agreement. But he kept it. I have to respect him for that. I understand that he was later offered more than a million dollars to do another film instead".
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Director Norman Jewison and screenwriter Joe Eszterhas worked on the film's screenplay for about a year. The Wikipedia website states that, according to an article entitled 'Stallone Wins Heavyweight-Purse' by Gregg Kilday published in the April 2, 1977 edition of the Los Angeles Times, Sylvester Stallone rewrote Joe Eszterhas' script, saying "Joe Eszterhas wrote a script that was nearly four hundred pages and was more of a novel than a shootable screenplay. A great deal of work was done by myself, along with Norman Jewison, to hammer it into shape, but Joe had conceived a great concept".
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There was some anger and resentment aimed at Stallone, regarding his receiving on-screen writing credit. It has been said that the actor made a few minor edits to the script but nothing substantial.
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The scene where the company sign was pulled down in front of the factory could only be filmed once. They only had one sign, which could not be replaced if it was damaged.
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The movie's opening title card states: "Cleveland, 1937".
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Rod Steiger previously portrayed a labor union enemy to Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront (1954) and in F.I.S.T. (1978) Steiger again portrayed a labor union enemy but this time opposite to Sylvester Stallone. The two pictures were made and released twenty-four years apart.
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