Filming took place in and around Clemson University campus.
This was the last cinema film for Roland Kibbee, and his only cinema directing credit. Burt Lancaster agreed to be involved in the project simply to help out Roland Kibbee, whose film career was in decline and whose best-known writing credits were mostly on Burt Lancaster movies; however, this involved some rewriting of Roland Kibbee's script and also having Burt Lancaster co-direct. The actor had directed one previous movie, nearly twenty years earlier, i.e. The Kentuckian (1955); it had been a most unhappy experience for him. He hinted to journalists that his participation in this movie was more out of necessity than enthusiasm, and he never directed again. Nor did Roland Kibbee. The film was a flop at the box office.
The movie poster makes Catherine Bach (as the victim) look as if she's naked, but in the film she's fully clothed when she's killed.