Director Giulio Petroni claimed that the atmosphere on the set was "terrible," and that Orson Welles called Milian (who idolized Welles) a "dirty Cuban".
Orson Welles shared with Peter Bogdonavich how movies were becoming a series of closeups (a style that did peak twenty-years later during the 1980's), and cited this picture as one of those movies where, instead of allowing the actors to perform and the camera to capture the performances, every shot was separated, hardly meriting any worthwhile performances from the actors.