This movie's soundtrack made more money than the film's box-office returns.
Publicity for this film boasted that it had a cast of 50 million, due to the fact that crowds of people were featured in the old newsreels.
The movie largely disappeared after its brief theatrical run in 1976. It has never been officially released on home video, laserdisc, or DVD.
John Lennon stated at the time of its release that Henry Gross' arrangement of "Help!" for this film was much closer to his own original intentions for the song; he had always contended that the version The Beatles had cut for the original record and film was much too fast.
The footage of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis "dancing" was taken from a short 1942 British Ministry of Information propaganda film by Charles Ridley and Len Lye called "Germany Calling," also known as "Lambeth Walk - Nazi Style."