Quiz

At the time this film was made, Montez was (along with Abbott and Costello and Deanna Durbin) one of Universal's most popular box office attractions. As a result, no expense was spared in its making, and it features many of the elements that came to personify "The Maria Montez formula": an exotic, fictional setting, vividly colorful (and occasionally outrageous) costumes, elaborate special effects (including matte paintings and process shots) and expensive sets. It was also, like most of Montez's movies, filmed in the then expensive process of Technicolor. More than 75 years after its release, this is Montez's best-remembered film, yet it is now in the public domain.

Filmmaker Kenneth Anger named it his favorite film.

A poster of the film can be seen in La madre (2013).

Although mostly forgotten today by the public, it is venerated as a camp classic for its legendary phallic snake-dance and Montez's immortal words: "Geev me that Cobra jewl".

The priestess of the snake cult is well named: naja naja is the scientific name of the cobra.