Trivia

Kim Novak temporarily retired from acting after this movie. She was only thirty-two.

In a 1966 interview with the New York Times, Terence Young revealed that he had been obliged to make fifty-nine cuts for the US release "in the interests of American morality".

Kim Novak and Richard Johnson were married on March 15 1965. They divorced on May 26 1966.

The film was intended to emulate the success of Tom Jones (1963). It did not quite succeed but was still one of the top thirteen movies in the UK in 1965.

Dr. No (1962) director Terence Young originally planned to use his 007 star Sir Sean Connery, and to cast Connery's then-wife Diane Cilento in the title role.