This is the film that inspired G.W. Pabst to hire Louise Brooks to play Lulu in Pandora's Box (1929).
It appears that the English print shown in the US, UK and Spain, running at 78 minutes, lacks scenes in the first part of the movie with girls in Liverpool, a South Sea Island, Singapore and Bombay. A laudatory reference to the role of Myrna Loy as a Malaysian girl, by Adonis Kyrou in his book "Amour-Erotisme & Cinéma", confirms that that scene existed in copies shown in France before 1957.
Included among the American Film Institute's 2000 list of the 500 movies nominated for the Top 100 Funniest American Movies.
In the original credits, Panama City is generically referred to as Central America, the exception of naming the locations by the port city's name.
In the book "Who the Devil Made It," with interviews by Peter Bogdanovich, Howard Hawks says, "It's really a love story between two men. The real point is their affection and loyalty to each other. ... They get into a fight and end up by being friends."