This is the first movie partnering Gene Tierney with Tyrone Power. They would be reunited for two more: Auf Messers Schneide (1946) and Das gewisse Etwas (1948).
This is the last film Frances Farmer made before the first (in October, 1942) of what would be a series of arrests, jailing and psychiatric confinements in both California and her home state of Washington, continuing until 1950. Her mother, Lillian, became her legal guardian from 1943-53. While she was facing those problems. she made another film in 1943, "I Escaped from the Gestapo". She returned to work in television and film in 1951.
Tyrone Power played Ben's father in a prologue in which he and his wife were done away with by Ben's uncle, but the scene was cut from the film to add more suspense.
Jack Stoney, George Sanders' stunt double, broke his hand during the fight with Tyrone Power.
Marjorie Raymond's debut.