Renée Zellweger, upon receiving her Oscar for Cold Mountain (2003), thanked Vincent D'Onofrio for teaching her how to act, referring to her experiences in this movie.
The infamous kiss shared between Robert E. Howard (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Novalyne Price (Renée Zellweger) was only shot once. The kiss shown in this movie is a cut and edited version of their single take.
The budget for this movie was set at one million three hundred thousand dollars. Due to their shortened time frame and lack of money, Vincent D'Onofrio had to convince the bond companies to let them shoot certain scenes.
The Bastrop, Texas house that stood in for the home of Robert E. Howard, was the World War II residence of Judge C.B. Maynard, a Major in the J.A.G. office at U.S. Army training center Camp Swift. On October 6, 1942, a G.I. trainee who had been institutionalized before induction kidnapped and choked to death the judge's eight-year-old daughter. Apprehended immediately in a stolen car, he was found guilty at a court-martial and sentenced to hang. He was executed on March 19, 1943. The Maynard family left Bastrop later.
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