Neile Adams, who plays the woman that the Gambler (Steve McQueen) meets in the bar, was married to McQueen when this episode was made.
This episode was remade as one of the segments in the film Four Rooms (1995), which was directed by Quentin Tarantino.
This episode was remade in 1985 as one of the four stories in the pilot episode of the new series of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985) (Pilot (1985)). John Huston plays Peter Lorre's role and Hitchcock actresses Kim Novak, Tippi Hedren, and Melanie Griffith also appear.
In his closing spiel, during his regular dig at having to accept sponsorship and advertising, Alfred Hitchcock says, "That last commercial left me completely underwhelmed." This is a very early use of "underwhelmed", a coinage unknown prior to 1945.
Roald Dahl's story is set on an island in the West Indies, but this adaptation relocates the plot to Las Vegas, as does the 1985 remake.