 This film was the brainchild of Alexis Kanner (qv). He and  Patrick McGoohan (qv) met via Kanners performance in an episode  of McGoohans popular British television show  _"Prisoner, The" (1967)_ (qv). Kanner worked on the idea and  polished it for a few years before finally calling up McGoohan to  ask him to star in the film.