The original cut of the film ran 3 and a half hours.
Average Shot Length (ASL): 17 seconds.
The historical details mentioned by Jesse in the film about Washington, GA, are all true: Washington was, indeed, the first town in the United States to be after first president George Washington, in 1780; Washington was not razed by Union General William T. Sherman on his march to the sea; it was where Jefferson Davis held the last Cabinet meeting of the Confederate States of America; it was the site of the first operating cotton gin; and the first woman to be hanged in Georgia was hanged in Washington in 1806. Her name was Polly Barclay.
The translator and interpreter of the Old French portions, Hartley R. Miller, utilizes two distinct medieval dialects, the continental Old French, and Anglo-Norman, which was spoken in England.
Chesapeake, Virginia - one of the largest cities in Virginia by land area, and containing large tracts of protected natural areas - stands in for Washington, Georgia.