 In an interview with Jay Slater, Fred Williamson (qv) told how he  made this movie during the shooting of Enzo G. Castellari (qv)s  _Inglorious Bastards (1977)_ (qv). He would take the camera  equipment and crew every Saturday and Sunday and film “Mr Mean”,  unknown to the producer at that time. He wrote the story Monday to  Friday and shot on the weekends what he had written that week.