The film's working title was "Brady's Bunch". John Michael Hayes wrote the original story and there was reported interest from the studios about turning it into a vehicle for Burt Lancaster, Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power before it was bought by Universal-International for Jeff Chandler.
In an interview Maureen O'Hara said that "Jeff Chandler was a nice man but a bad actor."
Jeff Chandler, Maureen O'Hara and Henry Brandon all previously appeared in Les frères Barberousse (1951).