Final film of Lewis Stone (Capt. Holt), who died in September 1953, two months before the film was theatrically released.
Elizabeth Taylor was initially cast as Priscilla, but was forty pounds overweight, as a result of her recent pregnancy, and so was replaced by Ann Blyth.
Stewart Granger later called the film a "crappy melodrama" and said the studio made him do this instead of the role he really wanted, the lead in "Mogambo". He said he had been promised the latter but Dore Schary had reneged and given the role to Clark Gable.
Stewart Granger enjoyed working with Robert Taylor, saying he "was the easiest person to work with but he had been entirely emasculated by the MGM brass who insisted that he was only a pretty face. He was convinced he wasn't really a good actor and his calm acceptance of this stigma infuriated me. He was such a nice guy, Bob, but he had even more hang-ups than I had."
Stewart Granger later called the film "bad" but admitted, "I had an OK villain's part."