Based on a true story that originally appeared in Reader's Digest.
Filmed in 1948, but not released until 1950.
Billy Eckstine recorded "You're Wonderful" for M-G-M Records as the B-side of "Fool's Paradise." On the label under the title it reads: (From Paramount Picture "Bitter Victory").
Bill Prentice mentions Man O' War and Seabiscuit, two of the greatest thoroughbred race horses, one from the 1920s and the other 1940s.