Martin Scorsese cast Joe Pesci and Frank Vincent in Raging Bull (1980) after seeing them in this low-budget mob drama.
Title later changed and is now known as "Family Enforcer".
In the round table discussion for The Irishman (2019) with Scorsese, DeNiro, Pacino, and Pesci... Martin Scorsese says that it was Robert DeNiro who discovered Joe Pesci in The Death Collector.
Ingenue Anne Johns is the line producer for the movie Love Ranch, which was the first project this movie's co-star Joe Pesci did after over a decade of not acting.