Forty-nine years earlier Kirk Douglas and Lauren Bacall starred together in Young Man with a Horn (1950).
Several clips from Kirk Douglas' earlier film Champion (1949) are used to illustrate Harry Agensky's career as a boxer.
Joyce Bulifant (June) is the mother of the director John Asher while Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg (Sugar) was his wife at the time that the film was made.
Lee Tergesen (Border Guard) co-starred with the director John Asher in Weird Science (1994), in which they played Chett Donnelly and Gary Wallace respectively. John Landis (Gambler) was the executive producer of the series.