'A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle' is a quote from the French writer, Charles Baudelaire.
'Nothing is more terrible than active ignorance' is a quote from Johann Wolfgang Goethe. It also sometimes given as 'Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.'
Both this and Samuel Fuller's previous movie Shock Corridor were rejected for UK cinema certificates and remained unavailable until 1990.
In Venice, Lord Byron swam all the way down the Grand Canal from the Lido in 1818, a distance of more than four miles (6.5 kilometres). His most famous swim was in April 1810 when he swam across the Hellespont, the mile-wide (1.6 kilometre) channel that separates European Turkey from Asiatic Turkey.
Reference is made to Kelly as 'Captain Bligh' in the children's ward. William Bligh was a British navigator in the eighteenth century, most renowned as the captain of the HMS Bounty during the mutiny. It should be noted that he was not a tyrant, as depicted in many films.
The full quote from Lord Byron is 'All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.'
This film is listed among The 100 Most Amusingly Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE® MOVIE GUIDE.
Two of the posters on the wall of the children's ward are from Howard Pyle's 'Book of Pirates,' one of 'William "Captain" Kidd overseeing a treasure burial' and the other depicting pirates burying a treasure.
When Griff and Kelly are talking on the park bench just after her arrival in town, she is reading "The Dark Page", a 1944 novel by Samuel Fuller that was the basis for Scandal Sheet.
When Kelly arrives in Grantville, a movie marquee displays the title of the film Shock Corridor, Samuel Fuller's previous film.
Samuel Fuller:
It is Fuller's hand from the left side of the screen that grabs Kelly's wig off her head in the infamous opening scene. If one freeze-frames the scene you can see Fuller's face, his eyes covered with sunglasses.