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80 cars destroyed; practical chases with race drivers; actor driving school; Teflon-coated bullet; two alternate endings; added peace-process radio report
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- The hosts report that 80 cars were destroyed, that Frankenheimer avoided special effects in the chases, storyboarding them and mounting cameras as in Grand Prix, with actors driven at up to 100 mph by Formula One and high-performance drivers.
- The actors reportedly attended a high-performance driving school, which De Niro is joked to have failed; fender-mounted point-of-view cameras are compared with French Connection.
- The bullet removed from Sam is said to have been Teflon-coated to pierce his vest, the kind of cop-killer bullet later taken off the market.
- Two alternate endings are described, the IRA abduction and a version where she just walks to her car, dropped as too Hollywood; a radio report on the Irish peace process was added, implying Sam saves it by getting Seamus.