This film failed at the box office, resulting in a loss to MGM of $252,000 ($4.2M in 2024) according to studio records.
Ace figures he will have the $500,000 in bonds after serving five years in prison, and calculates that it amounts to making $100,000 per year sewing mailbags. Bob notes that this is more than the President of the U.S. makes. The salary of the President at the time of this film was $75,000 per year and had been unchanged since 1909. It would increase to $100,000 in 1949, $200,000 in 1969 and $400,000 in 2001.
This was Dassin's last film for MGM.
This film was first telecast in Philadelphia Monday 7 October 1957 on WFIL (Channel 6), followed by New York City Saturday 28 December 1957 on WCBS (Channel 2), by San Francisco 9 March 1958 on KGO (Channel 7), and by Los Angeles 8 April 1958 on KTTV (Channel 11).
Maria Dodd's debut.
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