In an interview with Peter Malone, this film's writer-director Esben Storm said of this movie: ''I think the script was okay. It's very hard to do comedy, and it's either funny or it isn't. I learnt a lot about comedy on that one. I think we would've been better off if the budget hadn't been so high, if we hadn't been trying to be so glossy. Andrew was very intent on making a sort of glossy big-style movie, and in the beginning the whole thing was all predicated on getting an American or an international star to play the lead. We had Tom Conti but they wouldn't let us bring him in. That could've made the difference.''
This film's writer-director Esben Storm said of this movie in an interview with Peter Malone: ''[Producer] Andrew [Gaty] had certain things that he wanted, which I had to accommodate, but within that I was trying to make a comedy about acceptance and prejudice. But even though it was hugely unsuccessful, it was my first attempt at comedy, which I really enjoyed. Some people still come up and say they like it and have it in their collections and talk about it being hugely underrated.''
The film was selected to screen at the Montreal World Film Festival in August 1984.
Cast members Harold Hopkins and Graham Kennedy had both previously starred in 'The Club' (1980) and 'Don's Party' (1976). 'Stanley' (1984) is their only shared feature film credit for a movie which is not directed by Bruce Beresford nor written by David Williamson - two of the key creatives behind the earlier two pictures.