When the Professor is found drunk at the start of the film, the trooper who assists him is a member of the 2nd Light Horse Regiment, as noted by the color patch (green on white) on his right shoulder and the emu feathers on his hat. This regiment was raised in Queensland.
Publicity for this film said that it was the theatrical film debut of director Kevin James Dobson but Dobson is billed as having directed the earlier feature thriller Image of Death (1978).
Third theatrical feature film of actor Christopher Pate. Mad Dog Morgan (1976) and Un coup pour rien (1977) were the earlier films.
This film was made and released about two years after Ronald McKie's source novel 'The Mango Tree' was first published in 1974.
This film's source novel 'The Mango Tree' by 'Ronald Mckie' won the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 1974.