Miller's Crossing

Miller's Crossing (1990) is a gangster film directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.

Trivia

• Trey Wilson, the actor who played Nathan Arizona, Sr., in the Coens' earlier film Raising Arizona, was originally cast to play mob boss Leo but died before filming. The role then went to Finney.
• Sam Raimi, film director and friend of the Coens, appears in a cameo as the principal police gunman at the siege of the Sons of Erin pub.
• Frances McDormand, Joel Coen's wife, appears in a cameo as the Mayor's secretary.
• Albert Finney appears in a very brief cameo as an elderly woman in the ladies' room when Tom bursts in there to confront Verna.
• Tom's apartment is located in the 'Barton Arms' - an allusion to the Coens' subsequent film, Barton Fink.
• During filming the New Orleans Police would arrive semi regularly to assess fines for permits the film crew had already procured. Joel Coen commented to Premiere Magazine during shooting," they are acting precisely like the cops that we're depicting in the movie, and they don't even care!"