Ida Lupino did not want to make this movie let alone with Howard Duff, who she considered arrogant and obnoxious. Lupino and Duff would marry the year after the release of this film, on the day after her divorce from her second husband and film-making business partner Collier Young.
Pre-production articles in The Hollywood Reporter noted that Ronald Reagan and Bruce Bennett were to star with Ida Lupino in this film. Reagan had to withdraw after breaking his leg in a charity softball game; it's unknown why Bennett was not in the cast.
Even though the story takes place in Tennessee and North Carolina, no one speaks with a Southern accent.
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 60-minute radio adaptation of the movie on November 30, 1950 with Howard Duff and Ida Lupino reprising their film roles.
An early uncredited film role for Jerry Paris who appears at 43:05 stating he saw the missing woman in the paper.
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