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Director Larry Cohen wanted to film at various authentic locations but was repeatedly turned down for permission. However, when First Lady Betty Ford - a former dancer - found out that Dan Dailey was in Washington to make a film, she invited him and Broderick Crawford to the White House for lunch, as she had always liked Dailey's films and work. Larry Cohen then started calling locations such as the FBI's training facility in Quantico, Virginia, and said that he wanted to film there but couldn't do so the next day because the cast was having lunch at the White House. Every location, likely supposing that the film had official backing, soon made themselves available.
Several people who were real-life acquaintances of J. Edgar Hoover are featured in the film, including the barber who regularly cut his hair and his regular waiter at the Mayflower Hotel.
The film was shot at authentic locations such as J. Edgar Hoover's office and home, the FBI's headquarters in Washington, DC, and training facility in Virginia, and the Mayflower Hotel (where Hoover ate lunch daily).
The film had a formal screening at the Kennedy Center, but members of both parties in the largely political audience were irritated by the film's unflattering depiction of not only Republicans such as Richard Nixon, but also Democrats such as the Kennedys and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Larry Cohen cast Lloyd Nolan because of Nolan's work in such films about the FBI as 'G' Men (1935), The House on 92nd Street (1945), and The Street with No Name (1948), noting that he couldn't imagine making an FBI film without him.
"Lionel McCoy: [sarcastically] Give my regards to the Wizard of Oz!"
