Manuel Esperón reused some parts of the score he composed for this film when he was hired to provide music for the Viruta y Capulina film A sablazo limpio (1958).
This is the first Cantinflas film in which Ángel Garasa has a prominent supporting role. Garasa later became Cantinflas' most frequent co-star, appearing in eight more Cantinflas films.
The film was highly successful in Mexico and broke all box-office records.
Consuelo Frank also starred in another Mexican film adaptation of a Alexandre Dumas novel, El conde de Montecristo (1942). In the Count of Monte Cristo, Frank portrayed Mercedes.
Janet Alcoriza, who used the stage name Raquel Rojas, was a top movie star in Mexico at the time and also made films with Jorge Negrete and Pedro Armendáriz. She later married Spanish screenwriter and director Luis Alcoriza and became a screenwriter herself. The Alcorizas wrote the story of the Cantinflas film O Mata Sete (1951).