A 1967 re-release attempted to appeal to the new generation by playing up the sex in the advertisements. The '67 poster featured the drawing of a topless woman underneath a bare-chested man on a bed, as well as a topless (but chaste) photo of co-star Fay Spain that was definitely not in the picture itself! For this re-release, Tina Louise was given top-billing and Michael Landon went from tenth billing in 1958 to second billing this time.
According to an article in the 8/9/57 edition of "The Hollywood Reporter", Anthony Mann and Security Pictures were denied permission to film on location in Georgia. Civic and business leaders feared the film of Erskine Caldwell's 1933 novel would portray the state in a negative light. Mann scouted locations in Louisiana and the Carolinas before settling on a site outside Stockton, CA.
According to an article in the 5/31/58 edition of "Daily Variety", $75,000 was spent by the production company to shoot alternate scenes to be substituted for theaters in the southern states should any object to certain aspects of this picture. There is no record of this alternate version being shown.
This film has been preserved and restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.