Per "The New Yorker" (11/27/2017), Winston Churchill watched this movie and pronounced Marlene Dietrich "very alluring" the night before British battleships attacked and sank the German battleship Bismarck.
Director Tay Garnett said that John Wayne and Marlene Dietrich were crazy about each other, and every crew member was also mad about her--including Garnett himself.
Original working title: "Tropical Sinners"