Roger Ebert, in his review for director John Badham’s Bird on a Wire, said any spectacle therein was an affectation, an unearned reward because we don’t believe the characters. Now with many decades of hindsight, he may have underestimated the chemistry its leads

As director David Fincher has said, the studio was selling a release date, not a movie.

Steve McQueen should have been murdered by Charles Manson’s followers in August, 1969, but lucky for him he was an adulterous husband.