Curiosidades

This was considered a major prestige counterculture movie for Columbia, and their first choice for director was the young Michael Reeves, hot from the success of his horror pic, O Caçador de Bruxas (1968). However, his sudden death at age 25 ended that possibility.

When Jane Asher filmed her bath scene for The Masque of the Red Death (1964) six years before, she was shy and insisted on wearing patches over her nipples so no one could see them. But they kept falling off when they got wet and she grew tired of having to stick them back on. She finally gave up and didn't care who saw her breasts. When it came time me to shoot her skinny dipping scene for this film, she didn't worry about it and went fully nude on set in front of everyone.

One of two movies released in March 1971 where former child star Jane Asher was nude (she was 25). The other was The Buttercup Chain. She wouldn't perform nude again until 1994 (she was 48) in Closing Numbers and then The Maiden's Conspiracy in 2006 (she was 60).