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unusual facts about Rumble Fish


One from the Heart

Coppola has said that the films he made during the rest of the 1980s and most of the 1990s, such as The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, The Cotton Club, The Godfather, Part III, Jack and The Rainmaker, were done to pay off the debts incurred by One from the Heart.


Drastic Measures

One of the first rock videos (along with "Beat It" and "New Frontier") to be blown up to 35mm film and exhibited in movie theaters as a trailer, the music video for "Fight Fire With Fire," directed by Dominic Orlando, was released theatrically across the USA in 1983 as a short subject with Francis Ford Coppola's Rumble Fish.

Media in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Feature films shot in the Tulsa region include the Francis Ford Coppola productions The Outsiders and Rumble Fish (both released in 1983), as well as "Weird Al" Yankovic's UHF (1989), Tulsa (1949), All-American Murder (1992), The Frighteners (1996), Phenomenon (1996), Keys to Tulsa (1997), and Tim Blake Nelson's Eye of God (1997).


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