Mara Corday told writer Tom Weaver that director Pevney had originally cast Allison Hayes in her role, but that Universal-International insisted that Corday be given the role. Hayes left the studio soon after.
This film was being shown in the theater of the ocean liner Andrea Doria, when she was struck (and consequently eventually sunk) by the liner Stockholm on 25-26 July, 1956. The film was interrupted by the collision.
This was the last motion picture to be photographed on the three-strip Technicolor camera.