Trivia

The character Mr. Grace does not appear in James Joyce's original story. He is an invention of John Huston and Tony Huston's, and was chiefly included so as to permit a reading of the eighth-century Irish poem Donal Og ("Young Donal"). Although it represents a departure from Joyce's text, the poem is nonetheless appropriate to the story's themes: like the song "The Lass of Aughrim" that follows it, "Donal Og" deals with the suffering that love can bring to young women...just as it has for Greta.

John Huston was too ill to film in Dublin and all the Irish scenes were filmed by the second unit.

Final theatrical feature film directed by actor-writer-director John Huston.

The picture debuted after the film's director John Huston had passed away.

The final shot is not of Ireland, but of snow falling in Joshua Tree National Park, California.