Trivia

The F.B.I. would go on to use this as a training video.

While David Soul looks nothing like the real life Michael Platt, Michael Gross has more than a passing resemblance to William Matix.

Final film of Dorothy Keller.

Special Agent Gordon McNeill survived the shootout and eventually went on the lecture circuit to train various law enforcement agencies across the country, using this incident as a reference. He still carried a bullet fragment near his spine that caused him to walk with a stiff gait and lose much of the feeling in his legs.

Richard Jenkins and Peter McRobbie later appeared in And the Band Played On (1993).