Burt Lancaster came to Britain to make this trial run for his Oscar-winning role as Elmer Gantry. You have to admire his courage in casting Laurence Olivier as his mortal adversary; and although Lancaster was such a back-seat driver that Olivier hated making the film, costar Kirk Douglas was obviously impressed enough to promptly cast him in his own production 'Spartacus'.
A pat on the back too for whoever thought of the witty animated sequences.
A pat on the back too for whoever thought of the witty animated sequences.