Judy Dikty (misspelled in the credits as "Ditky") is the real name of author Julian C. May, by which she is better known and credited elsewhere.
Five years after the release of this film, star Maria De Aragon played Greedo, the hapless green alien shot dead by Han Solo in the Mos Eisley cantina, in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).
The protagonist is named Iane Thorne. Ian Thorne was one of the pseudonyms used by Julian C. May, who wrote the short story on which the movie is based.