We -- (star) Frank Sinatra, (writer) George Axelrod and me -- said, 'Absolutely not. We won't stand for this.' We had some creative control of this thing. We begged United Artists not to do it.

Alas, by December 1970, Sinatra was out, reportedly walking away from the role due to Harry's choice of weapon. He had suffered a hand injury while filming "The Manchurian Candidate" (a film that ...