Shot in eighteen days.
Film begins during opening credits.
Despite this movie being touted as an "epic", it is only one hour and seventeen minutes long.
The King brothers, broken the Hollywood ban against hiring any of the ten men who, in 1947, refused to answer the questions of a Congressional committee on their Communist affiliations, by hiring Edward Dmytryk to direct.
Dmytryk he had served a prison sentence for contempt - testified fully on his former Communist affiliations.
Dmytryk he had served a prison sentence for contempt - testified fully on his former Communist affiliations.
Opening credits: All events, characters, firms and institutions in this photoplay are fictional and any similarity to any persons, living or dead, or to any actual events or to any actual firms or institutions, is coincidental and unintentional.