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• When Dorinda returns home in the plane, she is dressed like Ripley from Aliens (1986), and similarly, she has a ginger tom cat. The cat, however, is named Linda Blair.
  
  
• This film is a remake of A Guy Named Joe (1943), which was watched on television in Poltergeist (1982), which was co-written by director Steven Spielberg.
  
  
• Director Trademark: [Steven Spielberg] [music]
  
  
• Portions of John Williams' music are derived from Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis."
  
  
• The tune Pete Sandich whistles when he's nervous is an Irish jig titled "Garry Owen". This song was the official song of the Seventh Cavalry of the U.S. Army - General Custer's cavalry. When he is nervous, Pete whistles the theme song of a doomed man.
  
  
• The final film for Audrey Hepburn.
  
  
• Tom Cruise was originally asked to play the Ted Baker role, he passed.
  
  
• The bomber flown by Pete and Dorinda is the A-26 Invader, used by the Army Air Corps in WWII. Al flies the PBY Catalina, a Navy rescue and transport plane in WWII. Dorinda helps Al ferry a Cessna 337 Skymaster, also known as the O-2 when flown by the Air Force in Vietnam. Ted flies a Super Decathalon, an aerobatic airplane.
  
  
• Although the training base in the movie was supposedly in Colorado, actual filming occurred at the Ephrata, WA Municipal Airport which is a former WWII B-17 training base. Many of the hangars at the airport are original from that era, and evidence of the base is still visible - foundations for buildings, plumbing, the roads and even rock lined walks to the foundations still exist unchanged in the desert. When John Goodman was doused with fire retardant, he was sitting on top of one of a series of earthen bunkers, and walking around the airport you can still see the red retardant stains on the earth. Dorinda's house was a shell built for the movie and sits abandoned at the airport edge. Overall a very interesting place to visit as everything is very well preserved in the desert.
  
  
• Marg Helgenberger, playing the lovestruck mechanic Rachel, teamed back up with Brad Johnson in 2001 on CBS's CSI. He played Paul Newsome, The District Engineer and new love interest for Helgenberger's character Katherine.
  
  
• Whilst filming this, Steven Spielberg told John Goodman that he would make the perfect Fred Flintstone. Five years later, Goodman indeed played the famous cartoon character in The Flintstones (1994).
  
  
• Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter and John Goodman each received a Mazda Miata as a gift from Steven Spielberg upon completing the film.
  
  
• The incident where Dorinda mistakes Ted's John Wayne imitation as James Stewart actually occurred between Holly Hunter and Brad Johnson during filming. Steven Spielberg found the incident so comical that he reproduced this in the final movie.
  
  
• When Pete is first strolling through the charred woods, the song he's whistling is the theme song from "Leave It to Beaver" (1957).
  
  

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