 The prison guard who looks in at Tom Sellecks character while he is  working up the nerve to kill another inmate, was a Norwood, Ohio  city police officer, who had been working an overtime detail outside  the Norwood High School where the movie was filmed. Movie personnel  went looking for an extra to play the guard, at first choosing  another officer on the security detail, but when they got up close  to him they ruled him out as being too short. They then recruited  another off