It was reported in 1961 that Burton Wohl's novel was only written after the subject-matter had been activated as a movie project. The film-makers were initially unable to raise sufficient money on the basis of the script and it was thought that this might be more readily forthcoming if the story first existed as a sensational work of fiction. So it was.
Lola Albright and co--star Herschel Bernardi had previously supported Craig Stevens in Blake Edwards' PETER GUNN, which often featured the sultry Albright coolly singing jazz standards.
Although the affair between Lola Albright and Scott Marlowe's characters is supposed to depict an older woman seducing a seventeen-year-old boy, the actors were respectively thirty-seven and twenty-nine.
Dee Gee Green's debut.
Jana Taylor's debut.