In a television interview, director Arthur Penn pointed out that this film showed, for the first time, the firing of a gun, and the consequences in one single take. Before that, you would see a gun being fired, then cut, and the next clip shows the bleeding body. In this movie, you see a gun being fired into the face of a person without inter-cut. This was incredible at the time and would have been censored in the past. (Such a shot, however, had already been used in all three of Sergio Leone's "Dollars" trilogy.)

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