This movie traces the ownership of a violin through several generations of an Ozarks family, and ends with a rendition of the poem "The Touch of the Master's Hand". Three years later, its cinematographer T.C. Christensen would direct a short film called The Touch of the Master's Hand (1987), based on the same poem, which also follows a violin through changes of ownership.
The scene where the two people were repelling into the cave was the large sink hole at the top of the Cathedral Room in Marvel Cave located under Silver Dollar City MO. The drop is into the cave is over 100ft in total length.