Fact 4

With this idea jotted down on legal pad, Mr. Needham presented the script to Burt Reynolds’ landlord and close movie star friends to raise money for the film.

Burt’s reaction was to promise that if Mr. Needham could raise the money for the film, he would star in it. However, Burt’s landlord and actor friends had a very different reaction (according to Burt’s autobiography), “(they) got down on their knees with tears in their eyes and begged me not to do it”.