The soaring bridge provides enough clearance for the United States Navy's largest warships and aircraft carriers.
The filmmakers joined a unique fraternity by climbing to the top of the iconic 400' high Newport Bridge three times during production, twice inside the superstructure and once by manually walking the suspension cables.
Two iron workers who had just begun their careers in the late 1960s by working on the bridge were able to return to the top of the North Tower for the structure's 50th anniversary, as featured in the film.
Ms. Jean Brown, the yard engineer for Bethlehem Steel's Newport operations, was the first woman engineer ever deployed on a major steel construction site in U.S. History.
Joe Muldoon's original folk song, "Swingin' That Steel," written about his time working on the construction of the Newport Bridge as an apprentice iron worker is featured in the film.