This film marked the U.S. screen debuts of Austrian actor Paul Henreid and French performer Michèle Morgan. Henreid would become a star in his next film Now, Voyager (1942) with Bette Davis and then become immortalized in his following picture Casablanca (1942). Morgan's best-known Hollywood film would be Passage to Marseille (1944) with Humphrey Bogart - also at Warner Bros. After WWII, she would return to France and star in feature films and television into the 1990s.
Was RKO's most successful film of the first half of 1942. RKO made a profit of $105,000 (about $2M in 2023) on this film, according to studio records.
Final film of May Robson, playing "Mademoiselle Rosay." She died on October 20, 1942, exactly nine months after its release.