As of 2019 the hotel featured in the film, the Madonna Inn, is still operating and is largely unchanged.
Robert Forster replaced Don Stroud who had to drop out due to a motorcycle accident the day before shooting began.
During the "burning house" stunt scene for the movie-within-the-movie, there is a close-up of a crew member's hand, holding a stopwatch, resting on the script. The script is actually the script for the movie Stunts.
Part of a 1970s cycle of works which were about stunt-work and the stunt profession in movie-making. In his book "Cult Movies 3", Danny Peary says in his piece on The Stunt Man (1980) that "there had been a proliferation of theatrical and television films about stuntmen". The films include Hooper (1978), Animal (1977), Evel Knievel (1971) (1971), Stunt Rock (1978), Evel Knievel (1974) (1974), The Stuntmen (1973), Deathcheaters (1976), Stunts (1977), Viva Knievel! (1977), Superstunt (1977), Death Riders (1976) and The Stunt Man (1980).
An article in the 9 February 1977 edition of Daily Variety noted stuntmen Beau Gibson and Bud Davis and cameraman Daniel Pearl were burned when the house fire became stronger than expected.