Sam Peckinpah was an entrepreneur.
 Peckinpah received his only Academy Award nomination (for Best Original Screenplay) for this film
 Peckinpah's great-grandfather, Rice Peckinpaugh, a merchant and farmer in Indiana, moved to Humboldt County, California, in the 1850s, working in the logging business, and changed the spelling of the family name to "Peckinpah"

