Hitchcock shot some scenes involving actors Pidgeon and Bennett in a plane. They state he did this as a favor to this film's producer Walter Wanger, with whom Hitchcock had worked on Foreign Correspondent (1940).
This was one of two dozen Walter Wanger/Harry Sherman/Cinema Guild films originally released by United Artists, re-released theatrically in the 1940s by Masterpiece Productions, and ultimately sold by them for USA television syndication in 1950. It was first telecast in Atlanta Wednesday 24 May 1950 where it led off the series on WSB (Channel 8), in Cincinnati Saturday 27 May 1950 on WKRC (Channel 11), in Cleveland Sunday 11 June 1950 on WXEL (Channel 9), in Phoenix Wednesday 14 June 1950 on KPHO (Channel 5), in Detroit Sunday 18 June 1950 on WXYZ (Channel 7), in Albuquerque Tuesday 27 June 1950 on KOB (Channel 4), in both Chicago and Philadelphia and Boston Sunday 16 July 1950 on WENR (Channel 7) and on WFIL (Channel 6) and on WNAC (Channel 7), in New York City Saturday 19 August 1950 on WCBS (Channel 2), in Los Angeles Sunday 13 August 1950 on KTLA (Channel 5), in Pittsburgh Thursday 24 August 1950 on WDTV (Channel 3), and in San Francisco Saturday Saturday 10 February 1951 on KGO (Channel 7).
Joan Bennett and Walter Wanger were married after filming was completed for this movie. Their marriage lasted until 1965 but not without controversies.
Jean O'Donnell's debut.