Filmed in only sixteen days.
William Lundigan played the lead role originally slated for at-that-time RKO actor Lawrence Tierney, whose off-screen arrests for public intoxication and brawling lost him the role. Ironically, another Richard Fleischer directed noir, The Clay Pigeon, was to star Tierney, replaced by Bill Williams.
According to an article in the June 28, 1948 edition of the Los Angeles Times, Kent Smith was announced as the male lead in this picture.
According to contemporary articles in the film press in 1947, the story by Francis Rosenwald and Anthony Mann was purchased by Jack Wrather's production company to star Don Castle and was to be released by Allied Artists. RKO then purchased the story from Wrather in December 1947.