Richard Jordan was such a great douchey and deceitful prick in this film.
You've seen Guy Standeven in something because the man was in everything.

Nah, it was around before then. I remember it going along with the big yellow smiley faces around 1970-71 or so.

This film is the reason I can't, to this day, tell anybody to have a nice day. Whenever I hear it, I see Foley's sincere insincerity.

.The way Richard Jordan phrases it certainly makes it memorable. Also the term "Uncle".
.I just saw where aside from here and "The Yazuka", Jordon and Mitchum also appeared in a two-part episode of "The Equalizer"

I am almost sure the phrase "Have a nice day" was used in this movie for the first time. I saw it when it came out, which I can't believe was 1973. The undercover cop who keeps paying off people repeats the phrase over and over.
It was a great movie and should be better recalled.

I just love how goddamn insincere Foley is whenever he says that line.
You've seen Guy Standeven in something because the man was in everything.

Funny I think that phrase was unique to the film and not the book. Most of the time in the novel Foley would tell Eddie that he wasn't making him do anything (for the NH sentence).

I've decided I'll stick to my perfect record of never having visited Boston.
"Two more swords and I'll be Queen of the Monkey People." Roseanne

I haven't been able to tell anybody to have a nice day ever since I saw this film way back when. Whenever anybody says it to me, I see Richard Jordan with his hands in his pockets, so sincerely insincere. This film has that kind of effect on you - I still can't go to a hockey game, either.