Michelangelo Antonioni's first collaboration with his future muse and lover, Monica Vitti. Although Vitti doesn't physically appear in the film, she dubbed the Italian lines for Dorian Gray.
Betsy Blair said that she was paid six months after the shooting was finished because of financial production issues. The producer Franco Cancelliri met her in Paris, at the Fouquet's restaurant, giving her the money in cash.
One of the biggest influences for Guillermo del Toro's "Nightmare Alley". He presented the film on 29. June 2022 in a Parisian cinema, explaining how it inspired the look and tone of his film.
In Italian, Il grido (1957) means "The Outcry". The film was released in English-speaking territories as "The Cry".