The movie was based on Vera Caspary's novel, Suburbs. Caspary would become famous with her novel, Laura, which was made into a popular movie.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since; its earliest documented telecast took place in Minneapolis Saturday 25 July 1959 on WTCN (Channel 11).