• Friday, August 06, 1993

• Country:

  USA

• Language:

  English

• Runtime:

  130 min

1993

Goofs

• Continuity: There are no train tracks visible when the prison bus first comes to rest after leaving the road. Furthermore, it is resting parallel to the road, where no train could possibly broadside it.
• Factual errors: Illinois State Police troopers wear six-pointed star badges, not seven-pointed stars as shown.
• Crew or equipment visible: Camera truck visible at the bottom of the screen as Kimble enters the tunnel.
• Continuity: When Kimble calls Walter from the pay phone, the bell on the bridge gives its last ring just after his first line, "Walter, this is Richard." When Gerard plays back the tape of the call, the bell rings 4 or 5 more times after that.
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Kimble is making the call, the PA announcement for an El train is overheard. While PA announcements are now made only inside the train, at the time, they were clearly audible in the station (maybe more so than in the train), and even in the nearby streets.
• Crew or equipment visible: Visible in reflection on subway windows.
• Continuity: The clock on the building during the parade scene.
• Revealing mistakes: During the scene on the train, when Kimble kicks Sykes backwards, you can clearly see Sykes stretching his right hand. This hand is shown to be prosthetic and the hand immobile.
• Errors in geography: During the scene in Whiting, there is an Illinois State Trooper in front of the house. Whiting is in Indiana, out of the jurisdiction of the Illinois Troopers.
• Continuity: During the bus wreck scene, when the bus is driving down the road and crashing, there is a double yellow line and a guard rail. A few minutes later, the same road is line with police cars and fire trucks with no line or rail.

Taglines

• A murdered wife. A one-armed man. An obsessed detective. The chase begins.

Trivias

• The part of Dr. Charles Nichols was to be played by actor Richard Jordan, but Jeroen Krabbé took over when Jordan fell ill.
• A train was actually crashed for the movie, although Kimble jumping free was a superimposed image.
• Harrison Ford damaged some ligaments in his leg during the filming of the scenes in the woods. He refused to take surgery until the end of filming so that his character would keep the limp. The limp can be seen in any subsequent scene where Richard Kimble is running.
• The train scenes were filmed in Dillsboro, North Carolina. The engine used (which was not destroyed) now pulls a dinner train. During a ride on that train, props from the making of the film can be seen, including the prison bus and the shell of the engine that crashed into the bus. Dillsboro is next to the town on Sylva, NC where the local hospital was used for filming the hospital scenes in the beginning of the film and the ambulance get-away.
• Harrison Ford had never seen a single episode of the TV series "The Fugitive" (1963), upon which the film was based.
• Richard Kimble was played by David Janssen in the original TV series "The Fugitive" (1963). His mother, Bernice, is an extra in the courtroom scene. You can spot her behind Harrison Ford's head while they play the 911 call and when he is declared guilty. She is whispering with another woman.
• A destination indicator on an EL train reads "Kimball" and the next shot tracks over a building that has a sign reading "Harrison" (These are two actual Chicago locations; in addition, there are both subway and EL stops on a Harrison Street).
• In the 2001 DVD release, a man's face has been digitally removed from the train-wreck aftermath. In previous transfers of the film, a man's face is looking back at the camera when Kimble peers up at the train wreck from the creek.
• According to producer Roy Huggins, Gerard's line in response to Richard Kimble's claim of innocence ("I didn't kill my wife") was originally read in the script as, "That isn't my problem." But at the request of Tommy Lee Jones, it was changed to, "I don't care."
• When Kimble calls Nichols to tell him that Devlin-McGregor is behind his wife's murder, Kimble is phoning from the lobby of the University of Chicago's science library (John Crerar Library). Crerar is known for its extensive biomedical texts collection.

Awards

1. Oscar
   Event: Academy Awards, USA
   Result: Won
   Category: Best Actor in a Supporting Role
   Recipient(s): Tommy Lee Jones
2. ASCAP Award
   Event: ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards
   Result: Won
   Category: Top Box Office Films
   Recipient(s): James Newton Howard
3. BAFTA Film Awards
   Event: BAFTA Awards
   Result: Won
   Category: Best Sound
   Recipient(s): John Leveque, Bruce Stambler, Becky Sullivan
4. Blockbuster Entertainment Award
   Event: Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
   Result: Won
   Category: Favorite Actor - Action, On Video
   Recipient(s): Harrison Ford
5. C.A.S. Award
   Event: Cinema Audio Society, USA
   Result: Won
   Category: Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Feature Film
   Recipient(s): Donald O. Mitchell
6. Golden Globe
   Event: Golden Globes, USA
   Result: Nominated
   Category: Best Director - Motion Picture
   Recipient(s): Andrew Davis