 Although Joe Flynn played a serious role in this film, audiences laughed at him.This convinced him that comedy was his forte, and he later specialized in comedic roles, most memorably as the irascible Captain Binghamton on TV's "McHale's Navy" (1962–66).The full story of the making of the movie (complete with interviews with some of the participants) plus the script and pressbook are featured in the book "Scripts from the Crypt