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Budget 4,000,000 USD
Many people consider this to be Gregory Peck's worst film. According to Peck, "What audiences saw was not the picture we set out to do. John Frankenheimer, the director, left immediately after it was finished to do a picture with Omar Sharif in Europe. The studio people eliminated the prologue and epilogue, which gave some sense to the story. They had Johnny Cash write songs, which simply reiterated the action on screen. Everytime I see Frankenheimer he says, 'I owe you one.'"
Charles Durning almost drowned in the scene where, as the supposed killed deputy, he is thrown into the river before the crew forgot him and left the place of the shooting. It was Gregory Peck who jump into the water and swam to save him.
The scenes in town were filmed in Gainsboro, Tennessee.
Shots of the dam is Center Hill Lake on the Caney Fork River, located in DeKalb County, Tennessee. Some of the rural scenes were shot on Dry Creek, also in DeKalb County.
After working with him on The Gypsy Moths (1969), John Frankenheimer wanted Gene Hackman for the lead, but Columbia insisted on Gregory Peck.
"Sheriff Tawes: People here just try to survive, that's all. Some make a little moonshine, don't really harm nobody."
