Trivia: At first, this film seems to have only one scene and two shots, one outside and another inside. Actually, it is divided in a series of 10 minute continuous shots, 10 minutes being the maximum duration of filming possible without reloading the camera. Every 10 minutes, the camera zooms on a dark object and then cuts.
Trivia: William Bendix was actually a bat boy for the Yankees, and a close friend of Babe Ruth's.
Trivia: Because of protests from Jewish pressure groups, the film was not released in the United States until 1951.
Trivia: Director John Huston has a cameo as the white-suited man who gets increasingly irritated when Humphrey Bogart repeatedly begs him for money.
Trivia: Jane Wyman won the Best Actress Academy Award for her role as Belinda McDonald without uttering a single word of dialogue in the film.