Film debut of Jim Brown. He gave up his football career, at its peak, to try acting. In One Night in Miami... (2020) this is the film Brown tells Cassius Clay about.
Character Pardee (Edmond O'Brien) explains his war tactics similar to the way Colonel Kurtz did in Apocalypse Now. He admires the enemy's ruthlessness and plans to create an army like that of his own.
The film was considered groundbreaking as the two leads were both Jewish.
The film was released while Franciosa was starring on an ABC sitcom called "Valentine's Day." To help publicize the picture, Franciosa comedically re-created his Rodriguez character in one episode. Both the feature and the series were produced by 20th Century-Fox.