A production assistant was specifically assigned to follow Tone Loc around between set-ups as he constantly wandered off-set, usually to the craft service table.
The movie begins in 1898, but Colonel Graham (Billy Zane) is later seen wearing a tricorne hat as his civilian attire. This style of hat, while popular in America during the revolution, became much less popular in the earl 1800's, and would have been far out of date by the turn of the 20th century. Colonel Graham would look as out of place wearing that hat in 1898 as one would if casually wearing a top hat today.
Salli Richardson-Whitfield found herself in the unusual position of shooting a naked love scene (it will be her only one in her career) with the film's star, Mario Van Peebles, who also directed the movie. The actress saw an unusual advantage to the arrangement: "It makes one less man in the room."
The narrator makes the claim that over half of the people who first settle Los Angeles were black. Bypassing the fact that indigenous Tongva people settled the land before Africans ever set foot on the continent, it's not even entirely accurate to say the early settlers of modern LA were black. It is true that two thirds of the early settlers were not white, however with it being Spanish territory most of them were Mexican, Spanish, and multiracial including people of blended native and Mexican ancestry as well as African and European ancestries.
Was the first film to be distributed by Gramercy Pictures.