Trivia for
Angel Heart (1987) More at IMDb Pro »

• Marlon Brando was briefly considered for the role of Louis Cyphre.
  
  
• Alan Parker offered the role of Harry Angel to Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson and Robert De Niro himself before Mickey Rourke was cast.
  
  
• Shirley Stoler was originally cast in the part of "Izzy's Wife", but was replaced by 'Judith Drake (I)'. Stoler's voice can still be heard at the end of the scene, singing the song, "I Cried For You".
  
  

• When Harry Angel visits Margaret Krusemark for the first time, Margaret orders her maid to bring them tea; she and the maid speak briefly in French, which Angel obviously doesn't understand. The maid is asking "Should I bring out the best cups?" and Margaret responds "No."
  
  
• The poem about Evangeline and her lover that everyone refers to is "Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
  
  
• Robert De Niro's performance is an impersonation of Martin Scorsese.
  
  
• The old train Harry takes in to Louisiana we see pulling up in the scene change wasn't a working train and for filming it had to be pushed in by a proper train from behind.
  
  
• Alan Parker claims that Robert De Niro's performance as Louis Cypher was so eerie and realistic that he generally avoided him during his scenes, letting him just direct himself.
  
  
• The line "How terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise" is drawn from Sophocles' Oedipus The King.
  
  

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