[2] It stars Jack Palance, Sullivan, and Andy Warhol[1] who made a cameo appearance.

[3] Buckley wrote that apart from a good performance by Jack Palance, the other actors were "obvious amateurs", the story "flimsy", the dialogue poor and despite previous acting and directing successes Ulli Lommel's direction was "rudimentary".

[3] When mentioned in a Reuters news article in 2007 the film was referred to as a "clunker".

[8] Filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary both praised the film on the first episode of The Video Archives Podcast.

Cocaine Cowboys was filmed in 1978 at Warhol's estate Eothen in Montauk, a hamlet in East Hampton, New York on Long Island.