During production, Steven Spielberg confided that while making Lo squalo (1975), he and Richard Dreyfuss had traded quips from Joe il pilota (1943), which they both wanted to remake. As an "inside joke," a clip from the film is included in a scene in Poltergeist - Demoniache presenze (1982), which Spielberg had produced. Dreyfuss had seen the 1943 melodrama "at least 35 times." For Spielberg, who recalled seeing it as a child late at night, "it was one of the films that inspired him to become a movie director," creating an emotional connection to the times that his father, a wartime air force veteran had lived through. The two friends quoted individual shots from the film to each other and when the opportunity arose, years later, were resolved to recreate the wartime fantasy.

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