Luis Buñuel, who was Assistant Director, quit the picture after clashing with producer/director Jean Epstein over Epstein's decision to basically ignore Edgar Allan Poe's story.
Marguerite Gance, who played Madeline (Usher's painting subject wife), was the wife of director Abel Gance, most famed for previous year's Napoleon (1927). He also appears in the early tavern scene.
In the original story, Madeline was Roderick's sister as well as his wife, and the story suggests that the Usher family line is inbred.
There are 660 shots in the film.
Posthumously listed as one of Akira Kurosawa's 100 favorite films.