This is the second feature-length fiction film ever to be shot in Toronto. Long thought lost, this early Canadian independent film was found buried deep in the British Film Institute vaults in 2013. Spearheaded by director Sidney J. Furie's biographer, Daniel Kremer, a restoration and preservation project soon got underway. A missing reel of negative and a magnetic sound track were located after having been misfiled under another title. In May 2014, the restoration project was completed.
Actor Anthony Ray, the son of director Nicholas Ray, shuttled between shooting this film in Toronto and shooting John Cassavetes's debut feature Shadows (1959) in New York City, which was shot throughout 1957 and 1958.
This film did not see North American release, even in its native Canada. It played only in England, where, as a Pathe newsreel reveals, it was double-billed as a Rank circuit release with Karel Reisz's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960).
Much of the film, including the apartment scenes and the club scenes, was shot in filmmaker Julian Roffman's recently established studio building, then called Meridian Film Studios. Roffman himself later made two early Canadian independent features: The Bloody Brood (1959) and The Mask (1961).