Also supposedly it was filmed to close to the Nevada Nuclear Test Site while above ground testing was going on. And a higher then what was normal for that number of people (i.e., the cast) got cancer latter in life.
Reminds me of a movie. It had Tony Curtis in a final scene getting shot with a pistol while wearing full armor. In the background sound there are racecars going around a track or something. Read about it years ago. Yule Brenner also in that one? Sorry can’t remember.