Donald Pleasence passed away during re-editing and reconstruction of the film following test screenings, similar to the situation withBrainstorm (1983)and Natalie Wood, causing filmmakers to revise the ending to make it appear like Pleasence's character wouldn't survive into the next sequel." Vettori bestows he name "Little Caesar" upon Rico.A close-up of a menu introduces the fashionable Bronze Peacock gambling club, run or partially financed by gangster Little Arnie Lorch (Maurice Black)." Officer Jameson (Wayne Grace) reported that "the man responsible for he murders in Wessex County this past week is at this moment in he Wessex County Medical Center morgue.Once he reached the trapped victim, he was kept separate from him and able to communicate only through a small aperture in he rocks - appearing like a 'magic-mirror' figure.