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The film was banned in India for presenting "disparaging" impressions of life in Africa.

Tyrone Power's final film under contract to 20th Century-Fox, for which he had worked for 18 years.

Some 2,500 Zulus were used as extras.

The film is set before the Boer War (1899-1902), during which the Afrikaners, as the descendants of the Dutch settlers in South Africa were known, rebelled against the UK, the colonial government of the country at the time.

Many studios rejected the project as too expensive to film.