Man Ray also painted the paintings and designed the chess set.
Esperanza, the name of the fishing village, is the Spanish for 'hope' which was the only thing left after Pandora opened her box in the Greek myth
For still photography of Ava Gardner, producer Albert Lewin hired his friend, the famous surrealist artist Man Ray.
The 2010 DVD/Blu-ray restoration was made under the auspices of Martin Scorsese.
The first feature film in color for Ava Gardner.
The lines that van der Zee quotes on the beach at night are from 'Dover Beach', a short lyric poem by Matthew Arnold.
The tavern "Las Dos Tortugas" shares the same name (but in a different language) as the tavern "The Two Turtles" in Albert Lewin's earlier The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Van der Zee means "of the sea" in Dutch.