Katja Bienert said playing in this film was quite an act, cause she is far away from being sportive. "Mostly I was frightened acting like being a female Tarzan, so I was thankful that he added some scenes where I looked seductive or was fighting with my hunters - anything, but my feet on the ground. We shot on the Canary Islands in a natural resort and I enjoyed being in the nature, having a comfortable hotel nearby. Mostly we shot during the summer-holidays, cause Jess always respected me being a schoolgirl," Bienert recalled.
The original film version of Diamonds of Kilimandjaro (1983) ran at 83 minutes. However, the French censors did not allow the film to air in France. To bypass the censors, the French Production company Eurociné deleting several scenes and sent Olivier Mathot to shoot different footage with the same actors (and also used new actors to add a few characters). The film was then repackaged as "Les Diamants du Kilimanjaro" and ran 95 minutes long. This film was then exported around the world, but was still never shown in France. The original Spanish version (83 minutes) is only available in Spain.
Some animal scenes in the jungle (such as a charging rhinoceros or a crocodile being killed) are inserts that are not in CinemaScope format. They are stock footage probably taken from an old documentary (such as A Dog's Life (1962)).
On the Shriek Show DVD, there are no opening credits.