Publicity for this picture stated that there were 30,000 gypsies living at Vaccarès.
This movie was filmed entirely on location in Provence, France.
This movie was made and released about four years after its source novel of the same name by Alistair MacLean was first published in 1970. 'Caravan to Vaccarès' was MacLean's fifteenth novel and this movie was the ninth film adaptation of one of MacLean's stories.