Dead Heat
Working titles for this film were "Eli Kotch" and "The Big Noise". The actual title used, "Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round" appears in the film as the novel being written by Coburn's character under the pseudonym of "Henry Silverstein". "Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round" was later used as the title of a book of short stories written by Japanese author Haruki Murakami and first published in 1985.