15 Interesting Facts About Diggstown

1. #001

   Roy Palmer's wife was played by Louis Gossett Jr.'s then real-life wife, Cynthia L. James.

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2. #002

   Benny Urquidez, who plays the referee, is a world champion in kickboxing.

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3. #003

   The film was titled "Midnight Sting" in overseas markets.

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4. #004

   Bruce Dern, an avid sports gambler, has two sports he will not bet on: boxing and horse racing.

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5. #006

   Heather Graham and James Woods dated briefly during the making of this film, even though Woods was nearly twice her age.

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6. #007

   This is Michael Ritchie's fifth sports film and his first boxing film, following Downhill Racer (1969), his directorial debut, The Bad News Bears (1976), Semi-Tough (1977) and The Scout (1994), which was directed by Ritchie and starred Albert Brooks two years after this film's release.

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7. #008

   The prison where James Woods serves his sentence at the start of the film is the same prison used in another Woods film, 1982's "Fast-Walking", although in that film Woods played a guard rather than an inmate.

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8. #009

   The film was released in Australia as "Midnight Sting" to capitalize on the success of the similarly titled classic "The Sting".

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9. #011

   John Gillon's (Bruce Dern) initial bet with Fitz (Oliver Platt) was $100,000 against $10,000, but before the film ends Gabriel Caine's (James Woods) bet with Gillon was fifteen times larger, $1.5 million, not counting the town of Diggstown, which, if included, would have made it larger than Caine's final bet with Gillon.

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10. #012

    "Honey" Roy Palmer's (Louis Gossett Jr.) total training-distance time was seven minutes and three seconds.

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11. #013

    The film ends with the same "take a dive" instruction John Gillon (Bruce Dern) had earlier given Gabriel Caine (James Woods) when Caine first arrives in Diggstown to face one of Gillon's boxers. Caine does this to the opposing boxer Minoso Torres (Alex Garcia), whom we see him fight against Wolf Forrester (Randall "Tex" Cobb) at the beginning of the film.

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12. #015

    Two pinball machines visible in the background of the bar during the big bet are Bally's Eight Ball Deluxe (1981) and Gottlieb's Spring Break (1987).

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13. #016

    It is one of two sports films released by MGM in 1992. The other was The Cut Edge (1992), released earlier in the year in March to capitalize on the Winter Olympics, since the film deals with Olympic figure skating. The Cut Edge (1992) was the more profitable and better received of the two films.

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14. #017

    Later that year James Woods appeared in Chaplin for director Richard Attenborough. Attenborough appeared in Jurassic Park alongside Bruce Dern's daughter, Laura Dern.

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15. #018

    Heather Graham had appeared in Twin Peaks and in the film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. Laura Dern appeared in the final season.

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