The last scenes of the movie to be filmed were the first seen in the movie. The opening sequences in Iraq were shot after other principal filming was completed in the United States. Although the military Baath party was at power in Iraq at the time, the country was not yet in the grip of Saddam Hussein (the infamous dictator deposed by US forces in 2003, and executed in 2006), and thus safe for western visitors. Director William Friedkin said that he and his crew were treated with the utmost hospitality, and called the Iraqi people the nicest people he had met. For the scene where Father Merrin is nearly ran over by a carriage, a 109-year-old Iraqi lady agreed to be in it as she was filmed racing over the cobbled street six times (Friendkin mentioned that she was "pretty shaken up" by then).

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