"Now, which one of you is going to climb down into the sewer to fetch Daddy's cigarette lighter for him?"

Robert Aldrich was, rather surprisingly, a nephew of John D. Rockefeller, jr. He also had an older son, William, who's one of the passengers "killed" in the crash of Jimmy Sewart's "Sky Truck" plane (before he died in 2006, Bill Aldrich produced Fox's ghastly 2004 remake of the film).