The character of J.J. Hunsecker is based on famed New York columnist Walter Winchell. Hunsecker's apartment building is actually the show-business office tower at 1619 Broadway, also known as the Brill Bldg., a famous part of Tin Pan Alley. One of the musical refrains that is continually repeated throughout the film was taken and used nearly note for note in Boogie Nights (1997). This film's shoot was filled with macho tensions and at one point, the temperamental Burt Lancaster threat ...[Read Story ]