Noah Dalton Danby, the actor who played Nephi, had never read the Book of Mormon before making this film. Before the end of the project, he was preparing for baptism and dating Jacque Gray, the actress who played Terza, Nephi's Wife.
Each day of filming began with a word of prayer.
Sheryl Lee Wilson was cast as Leah, Ishmael's Wife. She dreamed of being in a movie about the Book of Mormon when she was a teenager. A few weeks prior to filming, she injured her shoulder making it impossible for her to participate in the film, but it was miraculously healed, and she was able to work.
Gary Rogers was inspired to make this film 50 years ago when he first saw Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956).
The "great and spacious building" was a five-foot miniature.