The dress Anna Lee is wearing as she mounts her horse is the one Vivien Leigh made from the curtains in Gone with the Wind (1939).
Pompey the boy, is playing 'conkers', a child's game with chestnuts on strings, in the waiting room.
In one of the street scenes, a flower seller is heard calling. "Lavender, sweet blooming lavender/ Six bunches a penny today/ Lavender, sweet blooming lavender/ Ladies buy it while you may." This is an old street cry from London.
The comment Sims makes to Nell about the inmates, "Fierce as wild bulls, untameable as flies, these have oft from strangers' side snatched rapiers suddenly and done much harm", is a quote from the play, 'The Honest Whore' by Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton
Filmed July 18 - August 17 1945, the third and last collaboration between Boris Karloff and producer Val Lewton.