Actress Martha Plimpton received an 'introducing' credit. This was despite this movie being her second cinema movie after having appeared in Rollover (1981).
Many of the the Missisippi River sequences were filmed on the Ohio River at Smithland, Kentucky, which had previously been used for the river scenes in How the West Was Won (1962).
Debut theatrical feature film of actress Louise Anderson who portrayed the aunt of Wexel (Shawn Smith).
The picture's closing credits declare that the production was" "Filmed on location in Kentucky and Louisiana''.