Richard Dreyfuss broke his wrist just before shooting began. Rather than delay shooting, they worked his cast into the script.
Mandy Patinkin's (pool man in Baltimore Orioles cap) movie debut. Elaine Kagan's (Eppis's wife) movie debut.
This film is the last entry in director Jeremy Kagan's trilogy about the aftermath of the 1960s and early1970s, the malaise that followed a particularly volatile historical period. The other two in the trilogy were "Katherine (1975)" and "Heroes (1977)."
This was David Rowlands's only appearance in a film which was not directed by either his brother-in-law John Cassavetes or his nephew Nick Cassavetes.
One of a cycle of a number of 1970s spoofs and parodies of film noir and hard-boiled detective films of the 1940s from the likes of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, some of which starred Humphrey Bogart, who was the main target of the parodies. The films included Murder by Death (1976) and The Cheap Detective (1978), both from Neil Simon, The Big Fix (1978), The Black Bird (1975), Gumshoe (1971), Peeper (1975), The Long Goodbye (1973), Woody Allen's Play It Again, Sam (1972), and The Man with Bogart's Face (1980).