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.
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."
Director William Friedkin was not the first choice to direct this film. Writer/director Paul Brickman, who adapted the novel the film is based on, was originally going to do it, but re-shoots on "Risky Business" prevented this.
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