Trivia: The final train crash scene was used in the opening credits of the 1980's TV show "The Fall Guy" starring Lee Majors.
Trivia: Edward Binns plays Mr. Frye, the father of Gid Frye (Anthony Perkins). In real life, Binns was only sixteen years older than Perkins.
Trivia: In the opening scene, Alice - a young girl - lives on a farm with her parents/grandparents, and her mother/grandmother, standing at the back door, calls Alice in for dinner, and the voice has to belong to Ellen Burstyn. When Alice grows up, she is played by Ellen Burstyn.