Errol Flynn's last film for Warner Bros before he was released from his contract in 1952. He had been with the studio for 18 years.
The 43-year-old Errol Flynn was generally felt to look too old to play the dashing young hero of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel. Although Flynn was wearing heavy make up, in the close ups he appeared about a decade older than his actual age.
In the novel, James Durie was only 23 at the time of the Battle of Culloden.