According to Mia Farrow's book, "What Falls Away," her father John Farrow and Ava Gardner were having an affair during filming in 1953. Mia married Gardner's ex-husband Frank Sinatra in 1966.
Ava Gardner complained about the very hard climate conditions where the air conditioning was missing. So the hotel owner offered her his own small house out of town.
The right-handed Robert Taylor inexplicably wears and uses a single left-handed holster and shoots with his left hand. In a number of other scenes he handles his money and objects with his right.
According to MGM records, Terror der Gesetzlosen (1953) earned $1,834,000 in the US and Canada and $1,593,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $895,000.
Early on in his career, Robert Taylor was typecast as the "pretty boy." So, Taylor must have welcomed this assignment from his longtime studio MGM. He owned a ranch, and according to accounts from friends and co-workers, genuinely loved the outdoors: riding, handling cattle, hunting, fishing. Here, he plays "Rio," the adoptive brother of vicious outlaw "Esqueda" played by Anthony Quinn.