After Mother's nightclub is bombed, Gunn and his law enforcement buddy, Lieutenant Jacoby, begin to tighten the screws on ambitious hood, Fusco, who aspires to become the city's new kingpin.

"A friend took me to lunch in the noisy Paramount commissary while I was wearing the costume from the Star Trek episode, "What Are Little Girls Made Of?".

My friend told me he began pointing to me and giving hand signals to Craig Stevens in another part of the room and yelling to him 'Sam!

"[4] Herbert F. Solow, Paramount executive, recalled that the friend who led Jackson into the commissary was Star Trek actor William Shatner.

[7] Stills of the nude scene appeared in the August 1967 issue of Playboy magazine, in a pictorial entitled "Make Room For Sherry".

Julie Andrews mentions in her book, Home Work, that her husband, Blake Edwards, had collaborated with William Peter Blatty in writing several films, including Gunn.

[8] ABC, the network which previously aired the third and final season of the Peter Gunn television series in 1960-61, first broadcast the film on the March 26, 1973, edition of The ABC Monday Night Movie; CBS later ran the film as part its Late Movie four times between May 14, 1974 and June 3, 1975.

Director Blake Edwards said, "As I entered the first scoring session of our new "Gunn" film, I was delighted to see that the band contained most of the familiar faces that had done the original TV show."

The six years that had passed since the TV 'Peter Gunn' went off the air had seen sweeping changes, not only in jazz, but in all phases of the pop music spectrum."

Listed on the credits, the featured soloists are: Pete Carroll, trumpet; Dick Nash, trombone; Plas Johnson, Selmer varitone electric sax; Vincent De Rosa, French horn; Ted Nash, alto and baritone sax, flute; Bud Shank, baritone sax; Bob Bain, guitar; Jimmy Rowles, piano; Ray Brown, bass; Shelly Manne, drums; and Larry Bunker, vibes.