Martin Landau originally auditioned for the role of Count Oga.
Final film of director Walter Lang, who directed his first film in 1926.
Originally budgeted at $750,000, the film ended up costing $3,500,000.
The classic slapstick "Stooge" routines are kept to a minimum in this film, in part because by 1961 when this film was released, The Three Stooges' Columbia shorts were being shown on television, and Moe Howard was said to be very sensitive to parental complaints about the violence in the shorts.
The first The Three Stooges film shot in color.
The only The Three Stooges film shot in widescreen.
This movie used the ice rink that was seen in Sonja Henie's 1941 movie Sun Valley Serenade. It had been kept under the floor of a sound-stage.
This was the most expensive The Three Stooges movie ever made.