Originally a Broadway play that bombed, the script was whittled down to less than an hour's playing time to make room for Kraft cheese commercials.
Brian Donlevy appeared with Anthony Perkins' father, Osgood Perkins, in the 1929 film Mother's Boy.
In Charles Winecoff's book 'Split image' director William Graham remembers Donlevy's short stature and incompetence. He could not remember his lines after many years of working piecemeal in films. Tony Perkins behaved like a gentleman in the face of Donlevy's ineptitude: it was his presence on the show that was causing excitement. Tony was a hot property and TV dramas were often populated by had been.