Trivia for
Blood Simple. (1984) More at IMDbPro »

• George Ives portrayed the fictional "Mortimer Young" (head of fictional film restoration company "Forever Young Films") in the introduction of the theatrical re-release and DVD release.
  
  
• A teaser trailer for the film was shot long before the movie was in production. It featured Bruce Campbell (filling in for the role later played by Dan Hedaya) bloody and crawling down the road, just like the movie.
  
  
• Holly Hunter had auditioned for the role of Abby, but turned it down because she was performing a play in New York at the same time. So she encouraged her roommate Frances McDormand to go and audition for the role.
  
  
• While M. Emmet Walsh's character is named "Loren Visser" in the screenplay, his character is never actually named in the film (his cigarette lighter has "Loren" written on it), and he is listed as "Private Investigator" in the credits.
  
  
• Holly Hunter's voice is on Meurice's answering machine.
  
  
• Jim Piddock provided the voice of fictional film historian "Kenneth Loring" on the DVD audio commentary track, which was scripted by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen.
  
  
• The title is based on a phrase from the 'Dashiel Hammet' novel '"Red Harvest".
  
  
• Officially, the title is spelled with a period at the end - it appears this way on screen. Most television listings and video releases leave the period off.
  
  

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