This was an early film to become shot inside location in Houston, Texas. In a period of a opening credits, shots of a Downtown Houston skyline (sustaining a Of these Casing Plaza building under construction) zoom toward the Houston Astrodome & Astrohall, by having the emerging Texas Medical Center in the background.

It was a 1st film to become filmed within a Houston Astrodome.

Cast
Bud Cort Sally Kellerman Michael Murphy William Windom Shelley Duvall Rene Auberjonois

Trivia

The court to The Wizard of Oz (1939) is noted in the film - Margaret Hamilton, who was a Wicked Witch of a West, is the music conductor seen when you took the opening credits. In a film, she is sighted wearing the red slippers. A character is as well racist inside nature and severity - she says "Get out, you Nigger bird" while the corvus corax lands in the bird cage. Robert Altman despised a original script; great deal of the scenes were improvised & filmed. This film marks the debut of actress Shelley Duvall; she was the previous cosmetics saleslady world health organization worked at a Foley's located at Northwest Mall. A hotel in which Frank Shaft go over was section of the Astroworld complex; it has went through many changes best when Time Warner took possession of the Astroworld theme park, now called Six Flags Houston. the few of a car chase scenes were filmed around a Astrodome - virtually all of a landscape surrounding the Dome was undeveloped - including the undeveloped State Highway 288 corridor (a subdivision of Holly Hall viaduct is utilized as a cinematography location). Detective Shaft parks his Camaro Z28 before of an Enco filling station - a previous Texas National Guard building placed at a intersection of Old Spanish Trail & Fannin is seen in the background. A building was demolished around 2002 in which a M.D. Anderson Cancer Center is building the recently research center. Riverside Terrace served as a cinematography location in which Abraham Wperfect is collecting back rent from either many rest home; virtually all of a locations pictured use at times been bulldozed per Texas Department of Transport in which the final right-of-way acquisition for State Highway 288 was finalized in the late 1960s. A railroad crossing seen in a film in a period of the chase scene was owned per Houston Belt & Terminal line (the original rail correct-of-way went through the Texas Southern University campus and paralleled Velasco Street inside Houston's Third Ward); the rail flypast which crosses Brays Bayou in the Riverside Terrace vicinity was demolished in the Eighties (date unknown). perfect when State Highway 288 was completed around 1984. 2 sections of Main Street seen in a film - the intersection of Main at Alabama, & Main at Commerce, come at present a share of the Metro light rail corridor. Whenever Brewster is serving when Abraham Wright's driver - a previous Ye Olde College Inn off South Main is briefly seen; it was bulldozed per Texas Medical Center in which a St. Luke's Medical Towers come placed since a late 1980s. A actor portraying a Astrodome watcher pursuing Brewster in the period of an Astrodome tour is/was Houston-region entertainer Dean Goss. Officer Johnson's prowl car is painted the darker shade of blue in the film; actually, Houston Police cruisers were painted the lightly shade of blue until 1998. In a film, a constabulary uniforms did non keep around the Space City logo - these appeared in the mid-1970s. Colt Stadium (named when a Houston Colt .45s - currently a Houston Astros) is seen inside a film (a structure northwest of the Astrodome); correct when cinematography was completed, the structure was take down & rebuilt in Torreon, Mexico. While Brewster fly when you took the climax, a Astroturf utilized in a Astrodome got pass out markings of a gridiron; a single Astroturf surface was utilized for two baseball & football until separate turfs were introduced. Virtually all of a thruway scenes were filmed on the South Loop 610 adjacent to the Astrodome; the thruway independent lanes were officially opened inside June 1969. the intersection of Fannin & Knight Road utilized as a motion-picture photography location is the todays location of the 7601 Fannin skyscraper & a townhome complex.