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Filming locations; the dangling-stunt refusal; the cut love scene; Sunbeam Alpine; body count of 109
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- The mall was the Sherman Oaks mall, which still exists; the Val Verde island is San Nicolas Island ('Nicholas' in the transcript) off Santa Barbara; the climax compound is the Harold Lloyd Estate in Beverly Hills.
- The same house hosted Beverly Hills Cop's final shootout a year earlier.
- Mark Lester wanted Arnold to dangle David Patrick Kelly over the edge unaided; Arnold refused and a crane was used.
- One account says the love scene was shot and cut; it was reportedly meant for the amphibious plane, which makes no sense with a knife at his daughter's throat.
- Rae Dawn Chong's wrecked red car is a Sunbeam Alpine, a 1960s British sports car.
- The body-count guess is 206. — Shea Serrano
- Other guesses are 185 and 85; the official count is 109, with 102 killed by Arnold and seven by others.
- It is likely the most deaths in an Arnold movie; 300 is cited as a film where about 300 die.