Albert Seedman who plays Detective Shulman was the New York Chief of Detectives prior to his role in this film.
Beauregard says to Crunch.."if I lived in Harlem..the way they are treated...i'd be a Murphy Man too." A Murphy Man is a slang name for a swindler.
This film features both Hector Elizondo and Richard Gere. Fifteen years later, they will appear together in Pretty Woman (1990).