This was writer Edna O'Brien's only acting role.
One of the few films shot at the ancient monastic site of Glendalough, Co. Wicklow, Ireland.
Director Michael Dryhurst found the hard-living antics of Patrick McGoohan, Lee Van Cleef and Donal McCann very trying.
Due to his huge TV success in " The Prisoner ", Patrick McGoohan is often assumed to be English but he was born in the States and spent his early years growing up in Dundalk. This was the second of three movies which he made in Ireland.
This was originally intended to be a cinema release.