Frank Sinatra was offered a role in the film. His response was "Duke, I love you but I get paid real money to do real movies."
In order to get extras for the wedding scene, Mitchell sent out real wedding invitations. Most of the people there thought they were going to a real wedding. He sold the wedding presents brought by the guests in order to have more funding for the film.
Duke Mitchell made a follow up film called Gone with the Pope. He died before it was edited. Recently, the rights were purchased by Sage Stallone and Bob Murawski of Grindhouse Releasing. They are finishing the film for Duke Mitchell.
According to the documentary Like Father, Like Son (2009), Duke Mitchell actually plugged crippled stage manager Maurice Duke's wheel chair into an outlet and put his foot in a urinal because he was mad at him. This inspired the opening scene.
Made in response to The Godfather (1972), Duke Mitchell took many of the events in this film from real life stories he heard from mob buddies while performing stage shows.