While the box-office records of the 1940s are difficult to research--especially concerning exploitation films, such as this one--this film is generally considered to be the top-grossing picture of 1947 and may well be the top-grossing exploitation picture of all time, with an estimated gross in excess of $100 million. Producer Kroger Babb said that each investor got back $63,000 for each $1000 he invested in the film.
Screened to gender-segregated audiences.
Producer Kroger Babb had so much faith in this project that he determined that the film itself meet the accepted technical standards of a professional production. To achieve this, within the limits of his available capital, he approached one of Hollywood's leading "Poverty Row" studios, Monogram Pictures, to actually make the film. Monogram assigned producer Barney A. Sarecky (as production supervisor), director of photography Marcel Le Picard, editor Richard Currier and especially director William Beaudine. This team had long experience with creating "one-week wonders" on time and within meager budgets.
This film had been unavailable for viewing for many years. Kino Classics had chosen to release it to launch their new series, "Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture".
In Feb. 1958, this film was being shown in many drive-in theaters on a double bill with Wild Weed (1949), which was also shown under the title "She Shoulda Said No".
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