Based on a true story that happened in February 1953.
The real Mr. and Mrs. Courtier made radio and television appearances to promote this film.
A contemporary article in the Long Beach Independent newspaper noted the Courtier family received $500 ($4,958 in 2021) for the use of their names in this film.
Doris Courtier mentions the Greenlease boy was killed right away. This is a reference to the infamous kidnapping of 6 year old Robert Cosgrove Greenlease Jr. in Kansas City on Sept. 28, 1953.
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By what name was The Night Holds Terror (1955) officially released in India in English?
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