Penultimate feature film appearance of Simone Silva.
The same year this was released, Simone Silva, who played Mitzi, was named Miss Festival at the Cannes Film Festival. During the event, she was asked to pose for press photographs with Robert Mitchum on a beach near Cannes. Silva, who once said she'd do anything to get in the newspapers, decided to only wear a thin scarf over her breasts which revealed her nipples. Photographers swarmed around her. After many begged her to take the top off, she finally agreed and posed with her hands covering her breasts. Mitchum loved it and played along. Photographers went nuts and in their mad scramble to get the best shots, several were injured, with two reportedly suffering broken limbs. The Cannes committee were horrified by Silva's actions and kicked her out of the festival. When asked why she did it, Silva told the press, "As long as sex is box office and I keep my figure, I'm out to be the sexiest thing on, oh, two legs." Ironically, the photos didn't help Silva's career, but it did propel Mitchum's popularity and he was frequently cast as the macho hero with leading sex symbols of his time, including Marilyn Monroe, Kim Novak, and Rita Hayworth