Joan Crawford later said about this film, "If Otto Preminger hadn't directed it, the picture would have been a mess. It came off. Sort of."
Dana Andrews and Henry Fonda disliked the script, but had to do the picture to fulfill their contracts.
Joan Crawford was 42 at the time of this film, while in the novel, her character Daisy was 32.
Henry Fonda and Dana Andrews appeared together in The Ox-Bow Incident (1942). Fonda was the main star and Andrews had a smaller but important part. In this movie, though, after the success of Laura (1944) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Andrews got billing over Fonda (second after Joan Crawford). And a decade later, Andrews would replace Fonda in the Broadway play "Two for the Seesaw". By that time, Fonda was a huge star while Andrews either starred in b-movies or had smaller roles in A-movies.