Richard Johnson, who has a minor role would later play Bulldog Drummond in two sixties films: Deadlier Than the Male (1967) and Some Girls Do (1969).
This film bombed at the box office, resulting in a loss to MGM of $1,052,000 according to studio records.
The airliner seen in the film is a 1944 Douglas C-47A military transport made for the U.S. Army Air Force and then transferred to the Royal Air Force in WWII. It was converted to civilian use after the war and is in BEA livery and has registration G-AGIZ. After this footage was taken it was sold to a French airline and flew out of Hanoi in French Indochina. It was then sold to an airline in Colombia, South America, where on 22 April 1962 it flew into the side of a mountain killing all 40 passengers and crew aboard.
Bernard Lee, Patrick Doonan and Peggy Evans all appeared in The Blue Lamp (1950).