Feature film directorial debut for actress Stella Stevens. She previously directed a documentary called The American Heroine in 1979.
Stella Stevens talked about her experience directing this film during a 2004 interview: "I took that job on a six-page outline, with two weeks of preparation, with a budget that was supposed to be a million dollars Canadian. But they were making two films, and they used up too much money on the first one, and it ended up 12 minutes short. I was left with about $850,000 Canadian, which is like $500,000 U.S. I made the film, and brought it in on time, on budget. But no one else ever asked me to make a film with them."
Stella Stevens joked in an interview that she got so fed up with her son Andrew Stevens and other men trying to "help" her direct, that she bought a whip and told them, "There's only one director on the set and it's the one with the whip."
As Stella Stevens explained, she and her son Andrew had some problems during production. "The worst incident involved a scene in which Andrew was supposed to be naked in bed under a sheet. The script called for a woman to come in and whip the sheet off of him. Then he was supposed to jump up and cover his private parts with a cowboy hat. Andrew refused to play the scene nude. He insisted on wearing his underpants for the shot. I got exasperated. I told him, 'Andrew, your underwear will show on film and that will ruin the scene.' Andrew, red-faced, shouted, 'Absolutely not!' while the crew smothered their laughter. Andrew became furious," Stella said, smiling at the memory. "It was the only time he used language that I can't repeat[...] After a long argument, Andrew finally got under the sheet and threw his undershorts at the camera," Stella said. "I couldn't get over his modesty. My gosh, I had changed his diapers! When I shot the scene, Andrew jumped from the bed and covered himself so fast nobody saw anything they weren't supposed to see - including the camera."