Once when director John Ford called Loretta Young to the set, the actress refused to leave her trailer until she was happy with her hair. After waiting for her for a while, Ford and several grips went to her trailer and began shaking and rocking it until she came out.
The line "I knew a man named Trubshawe..." refers to a lifelong friend of David Niven's, a source of references or character names in several of his films.
German Lugers do not have the makers name nor serial number on the left side of the upper frame. The serial number is on the front of the frame and the makers name is on the top of the receiver. Lugers were made in the hundreds of thousands so trying to trace the origin of the pistol is nearly impossible.
Alan Hale said of the film 'It gave me a passion for knocking about the world in odd places with adventure and excitement.'
In 1948, Twentieth Century-Fox released another film based on the same source, entitled Fury at Furnace Creek (1948), which was directed by H. Bruce Humberstone and starred Victor Mature.