Long time baseball announcer Vin Scully makes an appearance as a radio announcer covering the trial.
Dick Shawn had an "introducing" credit. However, his actual feature film debut was in The Opposite Sex (1956).
Mervyn LeRoy's first film for Twentieth Century-Fox.
Don Knotts rejoins the Air Force in this picture. In No Time for Sergeants (1958) he played an Air Force corporal doing classification testing on draftees, in this film he plays an Air Force sergeant in charge of morale programs.
According to studio records, the sets were constructed using actual U.S. Air Force surplus supplies.