When this movie was submitted for classification in the UK to the British Board of Film Classification, the board requested that six minutes from this picture be cut for it to garner an 'X' Classification.
Controversial in depiction of its subject matter, this movie obviously had its detractors regarding this and its content. However, Director Martin Scorsese, director of Taxi Driver (1976) and Mean Streets (1973), came out and defended this movie. Apparently, Dawn Steel and Scorsese were at a Paramount dinner function when a disagreement allegedly broke out between them. Scorsese apparently said that the Academy didn't have the guts to nominate the best movie of the year. That picture was this film. About twenty-four years later, Scorsese won a Best Director Oscar for the crime drama The Departed (2006).
As Season moves past the candles and flowers in the wedding scene with the old man in the mansion, a cameraman and camera are clearly visible on the right side of the scene.
Louise Williams: [as undercover cop, pulling a gun from her garter on an armed pimp in a potential shootout]
Blink your eyes, motherfucker, and you die in the dark!