Godfrey Cambridge was selected to the play the role of General Idi Amin Dada Oumee, but died on the set from a heart attack early in the filming. Julius Harris took over the part.
Burt Lancaster plays statesman (and future two-time Prime Minister) Shimon Peres, Peres is a distant cousin of Lauren Bacall, who was also Lancaster's friend.
Barry Norman, on his BBC show Film '72 (1971), said of Kirk Douglas and Dame Elizabeth Taylor's brief appearances, "Drop your chocolates and you will miss them!"
One of four movies made about the hijacking. The others being Raid on Entebbe (1976), Operation Thunderbolt (1977), and 7 Days in Entebbe (2018).