"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie onApril 2, 1951 with Dana Andrews reprising his film role.
Robert F. Simon's film debut.
Not only was the traditional Twentieth Century Fox fanfare music not utilized at the film's opening, Alfred Newman's ubiquitous "Street Scene Theme" is whistled over the unique opening credits, appropriately written in chalk on a sidewalk.
This is the last in a series of films that Otto Preminger made as a director-for-hire for Twentieth Century Fox in the 1940's. The series includes Laura, which also stars Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews, Fallen Angel and Whirlpool.
This story was originally dramatized on radio in January 1949 for the series "Suspense", under the title "Night Cry", staring Ray Milland in the Dana Andrews role.