 The films original title during shooting was "The Janitor Cant  Dance", which is the title that both Peter Yates (I) (qv) and  Steve Tesich (qv) liked, but Twentieth Century Fox forced them to  change the title during post production, at first to The Janitor  (the U.K. title for the film) and finally to Eyewitness, a title  Yates to this day still doesnt like.