Fritz Lang originally wanted a black woman to play the role of Emily Gaunt but the producers refused.
Kathleen Freeman, in her ninth movie appearance, earned her very first acting motion picture credit with this film. She would remain active having nearly 300 appearances in film and television for the next 51 years until her death.
Usually seen in bit parts, Jody Gilbert has a major supporting role as Flora Bantam the servant girl.
One of the least-known and least-revived films of Fritz Lang's later American films. He made it on a low budget for a minor studio, Republic, with low-level stars in the leading roles. However, some two years earlier, it had been proposed as a lavish production for a Hollywood major, Twentieth Century Fox, with Otto Preminger directing Cary Grant and Rex Harrison as the two brothers.