According to Maureen O'Hara's autobiography "'Tis Herself" (2004), stars Richard Boone and Peter Lawford were allegedly both arrested in a gay brothel "full of beautiful boys" while making this film. The 20th Century Fox studio managed to prevent this from being reported by the press.
Maureen O'Hara claimed that Richard Boone and Peter Lawford were "rude and disrespectful to many Australians and to the press as a whole and the Australians came to dislike them both with a passion."
Maureen O'Hara wrote that 20th Century Fox told her to make a personal plea to the press not to report the arrests of Richard Boone and Peter Lawford in a gay brothel with underage boys.
The first Technicolor movie filmed on-location in Australia.
First "American film shot on location in Australia" according to the American Film Institute.