Shot in eighteen days.
The King brothers broke the Hollywood ban against hiring any of the ten men who, in 1947, refused to answer the questions of a Congressional committee on their Communist affiliations, by hiring Edward Dmytryk to direct.
After he had served a prison sentence for contempt, he testified fully on his former Communist affiliations.
Despite this movie being touted as an "epic", it is only one hour and seventeen minutes long.
Film begins during opening credits.
Mark Stevens would guest star on Obituary for a Dead Anchor (1986), which series starred his ''Mutiny'' leading lady Angela Lansbury.