Pop Culture Influences
- Shock rocker Alice Cooper released a song on his 2001 album Dragontown entitled "Sister Sara", which is about a woman posing as a nun while living a life of sin.
- The broadcast commentator Keith Olbermann formerly of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann, has nicknamed Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, "Sister Sarah."
- The main theme from the film is used in a scene during Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, in which Holmes rides a pony to Heilbronn, Germany.
- Two excerpts from Ennio Morricone's score - The Braying Mule and Sister Sara's Theme - are featured in Django Unchained.
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