Anecdotes

(at around 44 mins) Joe enters a bar under the Third Avenue El. The building number is 915, and the writing on the front window is "Clarke's Cafe". That's none other than P.J. Clarke's at 915 Third Ave., which is still there and barely changed.

The address given for Lorrison, 170 Central Park West, is the address of the New York Historical Society.

This film was a failure at the box office for MGM, resulting in a loss of $467,000 ($5.45M in 2022) according to studio records.

The drugstore that Joe Norson calls from is the set of another MGM film noir, Tension (1949), which was shooting at approximately the same time.

Director Anthony Mann's final film noir. After this he would mostly make westerns.