In the cast is Esther Minciotti, the intrepid Italian-American mother specialist, who plays virtually the same mother role in The Undercover Man (1949), House of Strangers (1949), Marty (1955) and The Wrong Man (1956). She and husband Silvio Minciotti are known as "the Italian Barrymores," but rarely play husband and wife on screen.
Metropolitan Opera basso Salvatore Baccaloni's American feature-film debut, he who plays Papa. As such, he receives an "Introducing" credit in the opening.
Esther Minciotti and Richard Conte, who play mother and son, died exactly thirteen years apart, on April 15th (Esther in 1962, Richard in 1975).
Was nominated for an award by the Writers Guild of America in 1957.
John Fante is best known for his Depression-era novel Ask the Dust, which was made into the movie Ask the Dust (2006) by writer-director Robert Towne and is one of four Fante novels to center around the fictional character of Arturo Bandini, a struggling writer. While that character does not figure into this movie, Richard Conte does play a writer who bears many resemblances to Bandini.