Star Jeff Bridges once said of working on this film: "I was turned on by the idea of working again with director Lamont Johnson, with whom I'd done The Last American Hero (1973) ('Stock Car Racer'). And I was curious about the phenomenon that is Farrah Fawcett-Majors [Farrah Fawcett]. But I did worry that she was into being a personality, and not an actress. But whatever fears I may have had soon disappeared - she was great! By the end of the first week, I couldn't believe how good she was. After two weeks, I said to myself: 'You had better look sharp, Bridges!".
Of actress Farrah Fawcett, according to film critic Leonard Maltin, the film "was re-dubbed 'Somebody Killed Her Career' by industry wags".
The venue of the movie's climactic sequence was the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade store facility. The picture actually filmed in the toy section of Macy's department store as well as at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
Publicity for this picture stated that the movie was in the tradition of the comedy mysteries of the 1930s and 1940s.
Actress Farrah Fawcett once said of her first big movie role in this film: "Franky, I was frightened. Here I was about to play opposite a two-time Academy Award nominee, and what had I done before? I know I was nervous the first time we rehearsed with Jeff [Bridges] because when I'm nervous, my voice goes up a full register and I laugh a lot. I sounded like a tape recorder working at the wrong speed!".