Trivia

Keith Carradine was offered the role of Queeg, and it would have reunited him with director Robert Altman for the first time since Nashville (1975). Carradine turned it down due to a conflict with another movie starting Glenn Close. Carradine later regretted it, and Altman never reached out to him again for another role.

This tele-movie was made and first broadcast about thirty-five years after its source play of the same name by Herman Wouk had been first performed in 1953.

One of a number of filmed adaptations of plays made by director Robert Altman during the 1980s.

Viewers interested in the authenticity of military uniforms in film may be inclined to point out that LT Greenwald wears his Air Medal above his Purple Heart in order of precedence on his ribbon rack. While it is true as of 2023 that the Purple Heart is of higher precedence than the Air Medal this was not the case in 1944. In 1985 the US Senate approved an amendment to the 1985 Defense Authorization Bill that included raising the Purple Heart in order of precedence to immediately above the Meritorious Service Medal. Prior to 1985 the Purple Heart ranked just above the Good Conduct Medal, which significantly lower in precedence. Since the story of this film takes place in 1944, LT Greenwald's ribbons are correct.

Bogosian/Lt. Greenwald is in a US Navy Gray uniform, in use from 1943-1949. FADM King ordered it to replace the khaki uniform. It didn't last.