The Rossi living room scene features the red chair on which Kim Novak sat in Hitchcock's "Vertigo".
The Ellis Island scene was shot at the Hibernia Bank Building in San Francisco.
The cathedral where Antonio says farewell to his home town was consecrated in 1223.
Atri, the town from which Antonio hails, was known as Hatria in ancient Roman times and became a Roman colony in the year 282.
The blacksmith scene was shot in Guardiagrele, Italy at the traditional shop of Scioli Filippo in operation since the 1880s.
Antonio and Mary's Atlantic passage was shot at the SS Red Oak Victory Ship in Richmond, California.
