Joan Crawford later said about this film, "If Otto Preminger hadn't directed it, the picture would have been a mess. It came off. Sort of."
Dana Andrews and Henry Fonda disliked the script, but had to do the picture to fulfill their contracts.
Joan Crawford was 42 at the time of this film, while in the novel, her character Daisy was 32.
Joan Crawford was borrowed from Warner Bros. for this picture. This is even more interesting because Crawford wanted to the buy the film rights to the novel herself, but failed to submit a bid before 20th Century-Fox won.