Hollywood Boulevard/Fun Facts
From The Grindhouse Cinema Database
< Hollywood Boulevard
- This was filmed in ten days in October 1975 for less than $60,000.
- Dick Miller's character is named for his character in A Bucket of Blood (1959).
- The plot was inspired by the film The Death Kiss (1932), which directors Joe Dante and Allan Arkush happened to catch on television one night.
- The name Patrick Hobby is a reference to F. Scott Fitzgerald's Pat Hobby stories (concerning a hack writer).
- Rico's line, "Is this the end of Rico?" is Edward G. Robinson's last line in Little Caesar (1931).