Film debut of Jim Brown. He gave up his football career, at its peak, to try acting. In One Night in Miami... (2020) this is the film Brown tells Cassius Clay about.
The film was considered groundbreaking as the two leads were both Jewish.
Character Pardee (Edmond O'Brien) explains his war tactics similar to the way Colonel Kurtz did in Apocalypse Now. He admires the enemy's ruthlessness and plans to create an army like that of his own.