 When Henry Fonda (qv) was trying to decide whether to be in this  film, he asked his friend Eli Wallach (qv), who had just made  _Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966)_ (qv) with  Sergio Leone (I) (qv), if he should take the part of Frank.  Wallach said that he had to do it and told Fonda, "You will have the  time of your life."