Robby Benson sang the theme song "Adios Yesterday".
The casting of Robby Benson as a Chicano put this film at the top of many Worst Lists in the decades that followed. It shared the honor with other examples of horrible ethnic casting, notably Mickey Rooney as a Japanese houseboy in "Breakfast at Tiffany's".
One of a number of 1979 "gang movies" which were first released in that year. The pictures included Walk Proud (1979), The Warriors (1979), Boulevard Nights (1979) and The Wanderers (1979). Then hot on the heels in 1980 came John Carpenter's Escape from New York (1981).
Robbie Benson is a blue-eyed Caucasian in real life. He was made up in dark face and wore black contact lenses so he would look like a chicano for the movie.
This is one of two movies where Robby Benson plays a character of a different race. In "Running Brave," he plays a Sioux half-indian (also wearing darker skin makeup).