Inspired by the U.S. Senate's Committee to Investigate Organized Crime, also known as the Kefauver Committee, headed by Senator Estes Kefauver, which was active 1950 to 1951.
First feature film appearance of Carolyn Jones. Her character is a caricature of Bugsy Siegel's moll Virginia Hill who testified before an anti-crime committee.
The setting, including street and business names and the Angel's Flight funicular railway, is clearly Los Angeles, but the local TV station covering the crime hearings, WRRT, has call letters commencing with the letter "W" that only would be assigned to a station east of the Mississippi. In fact, those call letters were later assigned to a station in Waterbury, CT. UPDATE: It is stated in the movie itself by the John Conroy character that it takes place in a Midwestern city.
According to a contemporary article in The Hollywood Reporter, Alan Ladd was to star in this picture.