Star Jack Lemmon attended a disastrous preview with his friend Walter Matthau. When the screening finished, a distraught Lemmon asked his friend for advice about the picture, and Matthau advised him that Lemmon should "Get out of it!".
During the 1980s, actors Jack Lemmon and James Woods, who star in this movie, both starred in movies involving South American / Central American conflict. The pictures were Missing (1982) and Salvador (1986) respectively. Woods and Lemmon were both Oscar nominated for the Best Actor in a Leading Role Academy Award for these two films but neither won for their parts.
The amount of money that Alex Main (Jack Lemmon) provided for gypsy girl Maritza (Geneviève Bujold)'s bond was US $30,000.
The collection of novellas by writer Stanley Elkin which this film's source novella "The Bailbondsman" is included in is called "Searches and Seizures" (1973) but when the anthology was published in the UK the following year it was retitled as "Eligible Men" (1974).
The character played by actor Gino Ardito is not known by a personal name and is referred to as "The Golfer".