Trivia

54-year-old Sir Laurence Olivier had an affair with 19-year-old Sarah Miles during filming.

Natalie Wood, the first pick for the role of Shirley Taylor, didn't want to be out of the country for the amount of time needed to make the movie.

This movie is Terence Stamp's second film. The first, Billy Budd (1962), was however released after this film in it being deemed noncommercial due to its tragic ending. His performance in Term of Trial (1962) was overshadowed by his turn in the title role of Billy Budd the same year, for which he received an Oscar® nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He was known in the 1960s as the typical angry young man.

Sarah Miles' feature-film debut. For her role as the infatuated Shirley, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) nominated Sarah Miles as Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles. She would later earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for Ryan's Daughter (1970).

In American release prints, Roland Culver's voice was dubbed by another actor.