Anecdotes

This film's title was the inspiration for the name of the 1980s British pop-rock band Fine Young Cannibals.

This marked the first time that real-life husband and wife Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner appeared together in a film.

Robert Wagner says in his autobiography that he and Pearl Bailey had an onscreen interracial affair, which was cut by MGM for fear of a ban in Southern states.

This was Redd Foxx's film debut.

Inspired by the life of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker.