This article is from the Movie Trivia, by Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au with numerous contributions by others.
- The following famous people have small roles: 'Jimmy Durante' (qv),
'Moe Howard' (qv), 'Larry Fine' (qv), 'Joe DeRita' (qv),
'Joe E Brown' (qv), 'Buster Keaton' (qv), 'Sid Caesar' (qv),
'Buddy Hackett' (qv), 'Jim Backus' (qv), 'Eddie Anderson' (qv),
'Ben Blue' (qv), 'Alan Carney' (qv), 'Barrie Chase' (qv),
'William Demarest' (qv), 'Andy Devine' (qv), 'Norman Fell' (qv),
'Paul Ford' (qv), 'Sterling Holloway' (qv), 'Edward Everett Horton' (qv),
'Marvin Kaplan' (qv), 'Don Knotts' (qv), 'ZaSu Pitts' (qv),
'Carl Reiner' (qv), 'Madlyn Rhue' (qv), 'Arnold Stang' (qv),
'Jessie White' (qv), 'Peter Falk' (qv), 'Stan Freeberg' (qv),
'Chic Chandler' (qv), 'Lloyd Corrigan' (qv), 'Louise Gwen' (qv),
'Leo Gorcy' (qv), 'Charles Lane' (qv), 'Mike Mazurki' (qv),
'Roy Roberts' (qv), 'Cliff Norton' (qv), 'Sammy Tong' (qv),
'Nick Stewart' (qv), 'Selma Diamond' (qv).
- Melville Crump was originally to be played by 'Ernie Kovacs' (qv). Kovacs
died in a one-car accident before principal shooting and was
'Edie Adams' (qv)' (Mrs. Crump's) husband in real life.
- Keaton had a longer, earlier scene (cut after premiere). In it, Culpepper
discusses his plans to use Jimmy's boat to escape.
- CAMEO(Jerry Lewis): deliberately drives over Culpepper's hat.
- CAMEO(Jack Benny): stops to offer help
 
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