Award: Prix de l'Ecran Français 1951.
Award: Prix de la Centrale Catholique du Cinéma.
Award: Prix du Festival de Karlovy Vary.
Award: Prix Paris-Presse au Référendum Public de Vichy
Feature film debut of George Pastell.
Film debut of William Sylvester.
The film was barely released in the US because the American Legion demanded that its distributor, Eagle-Lion Pictures, pull it from release (they objected to its "anti-Christian" title and the fact that its director, Edward Dmytryk, was accused by the House Un-American Activities Committee of being a Communist) or face a boycott of all of its films. Eagle-Lion retitled the picture "Salt to the Devil", but that didn't mollify the American Legion, so the company pulled the picture.