- Award Snub: It received just two Academy Award nominations – Burl Ives won Best Supporting Actor and Jerome Moss' score was nominated, but it wasn't up for Best Picture or Director.
- Awesome Music: Some would say that's what this movie is all about. They may very well be right. The score by Jerome Moross is up there with Elmer Bernstein's score for The Magnificent Seven (1960) for all time greatest music for westerns.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: Julie mentions to McKay that everyone in the valley expects a huge fight between the Terrill foreman Steve Leech and the Hannassey clan's Buck – the Charlton Heston and Chuck Connors characters, respectively. A little more than ten years later the two Chucks would finally duke it out in 1973's sci-fi cult favorite Soylent Green.
- Parody Displacement: A number of Burl Ives' lines in this film will likely be more recognizable to younger viewers from their use in the "Stimpy's Invention" episode of The Ren & Stimpy Show.
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