Nixon and Fallon, NV were both used as location sites, and Paiute Indians residing on a reservation in Nixon played Mongol extras.
It is alleged that the TV series McHale's Navy is based on this movie.
Don Taylor as "Jenkins" occasionally wears a baseball cap similar to the Cincinnati Reds and Cleveland Indians major league teams of the 1940s, both of which wore navy blue caps with red bills and top buttons - but without those team's red "wishbone C" letters.
Fallon, Nevada, one of the filming locations, was and remains an active U.S. Navy base, a naval air station. It is still sparsely populated outside of the city, and in 2023, the countryside looks much like the scenery in this 1953 film.