There is a poster for this movie displayed in the theatre in Quentin Tarantino's Bastardos sin gloria (2009).
The 100,000 francs reward for the capture of Durand was the equivalent of $88,417 at the time or about $1,670,000 in 2023.
This was the fourth film written by Henri-Georges Clouzot for the Nazi-run film company Continental Films, that made films to take the place of banned American films. The budget for the film was considered to be quite generous and included materials that were extravagant by pre-war standards. Clouzot made several changes from the script including the characters Mila and Wens from his previous screenplay for Le Dernier des six (1941). Clouzot was assisted by the story's original author Stanislas-André Steeman in writing the film. The film was released in France to critical acclaim.
(at about 8 mins) When Mila is singing for Christophe, the painting on the wall next to her head is 'Jeune Fille Avec Chien', [the original] created c. 1950 by the French painter and print maker Marie Laurencin. Influenced by the cubism movement, the artist specialized in themes of femininity using soft pastels and muted colors. She was active from 1910 until her death in 1956.