Production
Kris Kristofferson, at the time a bigger box-office draw than Harrison Ford, was cast as the male lead in the film, but backed out to make Heaven's Gate, allowing Ford to take the lead role. Kristofferson had been intrigued by the aerial sequences he had read in the script, as he had served as a helicopter pilot with the 82nd Airborne Division of the U.S. Army for five years himself. Lesley-Anne Down also replaced Sarah Miles, who dropped out after Kristofferson's departure.
In the film, Down emerges hurriedly from a Piccadilly line tube station called "Hanover Street". In reality there was no such station and, since Hanover Street links upper Regent Street and Brook Street, this would not, in any case, match the alignment of the Piccadilly line – unless there were a fictitious spur similar to that which ran from Holborn to Aldwych from 1907 to 1994. Harrison Ford, once he dons a German uniform, does not raise suspicions once they enter the Gestapo headquarters, even though his long hair, flowing down to his nape, would not have passed scrutiny from any guard or official in the German army at that time.
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