Although the film was released in England in 1952 and opened in New York in 1954, it was not nominated for Oscars until 1956, due to its not having played in Los Angeles until then.
The Old Manor House, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, which was used for some of the exterior scenes, can still be seen in
Manor Road.
Kathleen Harrison was only two years younger than her on-screen mother, Mary Merrall. Both Merrall and Harrison had previously appeared in Dickens adaptations, Nicholas Nickleby in 1947, and Scrooge in 1951 respectively.
As well as James Hayter and Alexander Gauge playing Friar Tuck in different productions, they both appeared in The Adventures of Robin Hood: The Haunted Mill (1956), Hayter as Tom the Miller, Gauge as Friar Tuck.