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Grodin has permanent scars from the real handcuffs he wore; the boxcar scene was entirely improvised on set; De Niro actually punched John Ashton during the train fight; the script originally had Marvin die when Serrano's thugs knocked him out, and he was shoehorned into the McCarran Airport climax
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- Grodin has permanent scars from the real handcuffs he wore for much of the film across all those takes, which a hypothetical Grodin podcast would ask to see; the boxcar scene was entirely improvised; according to John Ashton, De Niro got so into the train fight that he actually punched him; the script had Marvin die when Serrano's thugs knocked him out, but the climax would have been less dramatic without him, so he was shoehorned into the McCarran Airport scene.