After appearing in this movie, Sir Ben Kingsley did not appear in theatrical movies until Gandhi (1982) where he won the Best Actor Academy Award. In between these two movies, Kingsley worked in theatre and television.
The car chase runs for twenty minutes.
This adaptation of an Alistair MacLean paperback page-turner was released between the MacLean filmed-novel adaptations Puppet on a Chain (1970) and Caravan to Vaccarès (1974).
The make and model of the red sports car that John Talbot (Barry Newman) steals was a 1972 Ford Gran Torino.