Body Count= Four (Emmerich, Brannom, Ciavelli, Dix)
Both Director John Huston and ex-communist star Sterling Hayden were members of the Committee for the First Amendment, which stood against the blacklisting of alleged communists working in the film industry during the Red Scare.
Brannom (Brad Dexter) is the first character to die in the film. Dexter later appeared as Harry Luck in The Magnificent Seven. He was the first of the Seven to be killed.
Debut of Jack Warden.
Debut of Strother Martin.
Georgia Holt, mother of Cher tested for the role of Angela Phinlay
The musical scoring (by Miklós Rózsa) is extremely scant, occurring only for the main titles, continuing through the opening sequence up to the point where Handley enters the café, and then returns some 107 minutes later when Handley and Doll return to his boyhood farm. Total scoring just under 6 minutes.