Marc Sinden (Captain Dawson) was imprisoned for several days after taking photos of military installations.
Many of the British cast and crew have never seen this movie.
Filmed during the Iraq-Iran war.
An Iraqi gun battalion trained its guns on cast and crew of the movie after seeing a train blown up during the making of an ending scene for the movie (note: none of the cast and crew got hurt by the battalion).
So annoyed by the delays, top stuntman Vic Armstong fled to Kuwait to leave this movie.