This was the last American motion picture to be photographed on the three-strip Technicolor camera (mid-'54) and the last in that process to be released (July '55).
According to Leonard Maltin, Jeff Chandler sings the title song for which he also wrote the lyrics.
This film was being shown in the theater of the ocean liner Andrea Doria, when she was struck (and consequently eventually sunk) by the liner Stockholm on 25-26 July, 1956. The film was interrupted by the collision.
Mara Corday told writer Tom Weaver that director Pevney had originally cast Allison Hayes in her role, but that Universal-International insisted that Corday be given the role. Hayes left the studio soon after.
Amanda Lawrence (Jane Russell) drives a 1954 Ford Ranch Wagon Station Wagon; Ernest Tyson (Robert F. Simon) drives a 1954 Lincoln hardtop coupe.