"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie onJune 7, 1954 with Charlton Heston reprising his film role.
Charlton Heston improvised during the argument scene between Eleanor Parker and himself. It was not scripted that he splash perfume all over her. This move intensified the action and a surprised Parker was able to react accordingly.
William Conrad, who plays the commissioner in this movie, played the lead role of Leiningen in the 1948 radio play, "Leiningen vs. the Ants", the original story upon which this movie was based.
Stock footage of this movie was used in Trumbo's World, in which MacGyver and a plantation owner fight an army of ants.
While preparing to shoot the sequence where Leiningen pours oil on himself to repel the ants, Charlton Heston was told that oil would ruin his wardrobe so syrup would be used instead. Heston spent a miserable day on location as the "oil" attracted every insect for miles.