Raymond Massey starred as John Brown again in Seven Angry Men, the main story of which is also the trial and hanging of the abolitionist.
Aptly enough, the movie made its world premiere in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Shown at some engagements with Warner Bros.' new Vitasound audio process. Often incorrectly called a stereophonic process, Vitasound actually combined a standard, variable width monophonic soundtrack with a second, variable width control track, located between the soundtrack and the sprocket holes, that increased loudness for certain scenes by switching on additional amplifiers and speakers.
The seventh of nine movies made together by Warner Brothers' romantic couple Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn.
The song, "Benny Havens, Oh!" (sung by the soldiers at the farewell party at Fort Leavenworth) is a song from West Point. Benny Havens ran a public house near by West Point Military Academy. The writing of the song in his establishment by a Lieutenant O'Brien is commemorated in a mural in the Benny Havens Room of the West Point Army Mess.