Because of an error with the Roman numerals in the copyright notice on the prints, this movie was legally copyrighted in 1944 (MCMXLIV), not 1954 (MCMLIV). The copyright was not renewed by MGM as it expired ten years earlier than the copyright office records indicated (in eighteen years versus twenty-eight years). At this time, it was the copyright notice and date on the film prints that counted legally, so this movie entered the public domain in 1972.
First credited American theatrical film of Roger Moore.
This movie was a hit at the box office, earning MGM a profit of $980,000 according to studio records.
The "mystery challenger" on season six, episode ten of What's My Line? (1950) was Elizabeth Taylor, the star of this movie. She was asked why this movie was renamed. She replied that the studio was afraid audiences would assume that a movie titled "Babylon Revisited" was about Biblical subject matters.