When a tape is played from bugging Martin Luther King's hotel room, the sounds of people having sex are the same sounds from the sex scene between Jack Nicholson and Sally Struthers in Five Easy Pieces (1970).
In this film, Lee Grant played Dora Cohn, Roy Cohn's mother. In real life, just as Lee Grant's career was exploding ('Best Actress' winner at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Awards), she fell victim to McCarthyism, being blacklisted in 1951 by the House Un-American Activities Committee for refusing to testify against her husband, blacklisted playwright/screenwriter Arnold Manoff. As a result, she got very little work for about 12 years.
A television movie for the HBO network.
The film's cast includes one Oscar winner: Lee Grant; and two Oscar nominees: James Woods and Frederic Forrest.