Frank Sinatra says that he knew a girl that used to date bullfighters, a reference to his ex-wife Ava Gardner's affair with a matador when filming The Barefoot Contessa in Spain.
As Tony Rome is running from the police on the beach, you hear a band playing the Frank Sinatra song "You Make Me Feel So Young".
When Tony Rome gets in the taxi by the airport, on the side of the cab there is an advertisement for fellow "Rat Pack" member, Dean Martin's restaurant on 79th Street Causeway.
When Tony Rome walks into the room in the massage parlor where Bronski is, Bronski (Dan Blocker) is watching the TV show Bonanza where he starred as Hoss Cartwright.