Made during the height of the Joseph McCarthy era, this film is an allegory of the anti-communist fervor that commanded America's headlines at the time. Ironically, co-star and M-G-M contract player Nancy Reagan (née Davis) previously had her career derailed when she was erroneously branded a communist in one of the many red-baiting publications of the time. She sought dispensation from the then-president of the Screen Actors Guild, Ronald Reagan. This was how they met and they married a month before this film was released.
Near the beginning of the film, Bright's disease is mentioned. This is the original medical term for the kidney disease now known as nephritis, first described by the English physician Richard Bright in 1827.
At one point George Murphy calls his son, played by Billy Gray, Bud. Billy Gray would later play Bud on "Father Knows Best."
This film failed at the box office, resulting in a loss to MGM of $276,000 ($2.62M in 2019) according to studio records.