One of only two films director William Friedkin wrote nothing about, positive or negative, in his memoir The Friedkin Connection (see also The Guardian (1990)).
The name comes from a bribery scandal involving Lockheed and Japanese officials in 1972.
One of two films that writer/director Paul Brickman wrote that was released by "Warner Bros." in 1983. The other was the mega hit Risky Business, starring Tom Cruise, which was released during the summer around the same time as Chevy Chase's "National Lampoon's Vacation," which was also released by the studio and was also a success.
CBS scheduled a broadcast of this film for December 1986. It was canceled due to the revelation of Ronald Reagan's Iran-Contra arms deal scandal, and was replaced with (Risky Business (1983).
The quote from the Bible, said by Ray Kasternak (Gregory Hines), came from Romans 7.19-20. It said: "For I do not do the good that I want. But the evil I do not want is what I do. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells within me."
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