Anecdotes

This was Laurence Harvey's final film.

Whilst editing the movie, after the shooting, Lawrence Harvey was such in pain because of his illness that he could not sit on any chair. He only squatted on the carpet on his elbows and his knees.

Magnetic Video's edition is the second horror film ever released in the VHS format. Le sang du vampire (1958), on the same label, was available a few months earlier.

Stuart Whitman was originally approached to play Jason Henry, but turned the part down and asked if he could portray Deputy Rakes instead.

In 1972, it was reported Donna Reed and Walter Pidgeon would be among the stars of Yellow-Headed Summer. When it was finally released in 1973, as Welcome to Arrow Beach, and in 1976 under the title Tender Flesh, only Laurence Harvey was in the cast. (Brenda Scott Royce in the book Donna Reed: A Bio-bibliography, page 58., Greenwood Press 1990)