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The Limey (1999) More at IMDbPro »

• Footage from the 1967 film Poor Cow (1967) (Ken Loach's directorial debut) is featured as flashbacks of Wilson (Terence Stamp) with his baby daughter and wife.
  
  
• The first song heard in The Limey (1999) is "The Seeker" by The Who. During the 1960s one of The Who's two managers was Christopher Stamp, Terence Stamp's brother.
  
  
• Peter Fonda is shown watching a television program featuring George Clooney. Clooney was in director Steven Soderbergh's previous film, Out of Sight (1998).
  
  
• The relationship between Wilson and Ed echoes the relationship between the literary characters of Don Quixote de la Mancha and Sancho Panza, as seen in many movies, such as Man of La Mancha (1972) and the classic Russian film Don Kikhot (1957).
  
  
• Throughout the movie Ed, Luis Guzmán is seen wearing shirts with famous political figures on them. At the beginning it is the Ayatollah Khomeini, in the middle it is Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, and towards the end it is Mao Tse-Tung.
  
  
• Director Trademark: [Steven Soderbergh] rhyming cockney slang. See also Ocean's Eleven (2001)
  
  
• Ann-Margret shot scenes with Peter Fonda, as his ex-wife. These scenes were not used in the completed film, as the director felt he had already established Fonda's creepiness adequately.
  
  
• The original screenplay envisioned the main character would be played by Michael Caine.
  
  
• Luis Guzmán's character is prominently seen wearing a t-shirt of Che Guevara. Director Steven Soderbergh would later direct a two-part film about Che.
  
  

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