The movie opened in theaters in 1972 the same week that Jane Fonda made her controversial trip to Hanoi, North Vietnam. Within a week of its release, American-International Pictures withdrew it from circulation. Director Francine Parker speculated that "calls were made from high up in Washington, possibly from the Nixon White House, and the film just disappeared."
Nancy Dowd's debut as a writer.
Second of three theatrical feature film collaborations of actress Jane Fonda and actor Donald Sutherland. The movies are [in order]: Klute (1971), FTA (1972) and Steelyard Blues (1973). All three pictures were all made consecutively and first released in back-to-back-to-back years.
The acronym FTA stands (officially) for ''Free The Army''. However, it was widely known that, for the film's cast and crew, the "F" stood for another imperative verb.
Joseph Losey directed Jane Fonda in "A Doll's House" shortly after this film opened. He wanted to see the film, as an example of Fonda's recent work, and was told there were no prints available - anywhere.
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