- Jamie Lee Curtis played a wife who didn't know her husband was a spy in 1994's True Lies , and Arnold Schwarzenegger played her husband, also named Harry.
- In the first scene, starring Geoffrey Rush , there is a picture of Sean Connery playing golf, and Harry, played by Rush, goes on to say that he's tailoring a costume that resembles what Sean Connery often wears the set. The episode alludes to Connery's love of golf for playing 007.
- Laura Boorman, who plays Sarah in the film, is the daughter of director John Boorman .
- To make himself Panamanian, Brendan Gleeson dyed his natural red hair black and wore brown contact lenses.
- The film is John Lee Gary's first adaptation of his own novel into a screenplay.
- Cross-dressing shot: Abraxas still breathes and blinks after his death .
The Tailor of Panama behind the scenes gags
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Extended Reading
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Stormont: Noriega formed these so-called Dignity Battalions. Dingbats. They were to beat the dignity out of anyone remotely critical of Noriega. It was Dr. Frankenstein, George Bush, who created this monster when he was head of the CIA. And when Noriega's drugrunning and brutality got too much, even for the CIA, it was George, now President Bush, who decided to take him out. And just to make sure, they firebombed a big chunk of the old city. Sadly, that's where the anti-Noriega rebels were. The handful that Noriega hadn't banged up already. So no more opposition, silent or otherwise. Burnt, scattered, fled.
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Uncle Benny: Harry boy, I've told you time and again, a man who tells the truth is bound to be found out sooner or later. Try sincerity, that's a virtue. But truth, it's an affliction!