A burning oil well prompted the owner, present-day billionaire Phillip Anschutz, to call Red Adair, a famous firefighter who later put out the oil well fires during the Gulf War, to put out the blaze. To pay Adair, Anschutz persuaded Universal Studios to pay him $100,000 to film Adair putting out his well fire for "Hellfighters."
Last cinema feature of Jim Hutton.
The character of Chance Buckman is based on real-life oil well firefighter 'Red' Adair.
When asked to comment on the film during production, actress Katharine Ross replied, "It's the biggest piece of crap I've ever done!" Then the reporter asked Vera Miles (who was playing Wayne's wife and Ross's mother in the film) to respond to Ross's comment. She thought for a moment and said, "Well, it's not the biggest piece of crap I'VE ever done!"
When Tish Buckman and Greg Parker look at the house they plan to move into after they wed, it's the same house used as the Douglas home in My Three Sons. It was later used as one of the houses on "Wysteria Lane" in Desperate Housewives.