At the Union Station train depot in Oakland, Dennis Hopper made fast friends with the two Asian children seen in the film waving at his character as he departs the waiting area. He spent his off time playing with the kids during set up. Their reactions to him in the film are genuine.
The ending was filmed at an old beatnik hangout, City Lights Bookstore that is run by Lawrence Ferlinghetti who published Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Diane DiPrima, Jack Hirschman, and Allen Ginsberg which City Light's published his most famous poem, "Howl".
Kiefer Sutherland and Dennis Hopper later reunited in the first season of 24 (2001), where Sutherland once again played a federal agent turning to Hopper's veteran criminal for help.
Huey (Dennis Hopper) says, "You can't just go to your local video store and rent Easy Rider (1969) to be a rebel." Hopper directed and starred in "Easy Rider".
The first American film by Franco Amurri, the Italian director who worked as one of Federico Fellini's assistants on City of Women (1980).
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