During its run on television during the early 1960s, the film was retitled "Desperate Siege" in order to distinguish it from the Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood television series "Rawhide" (1959).
Everett Sloane was originally cast as Tevis. However, Susan Hayward complained about Sloane's roughness in a scene in which he threw her to the floor, and he was replaced by Jack Elam.
During location work, Tyrone Power took a liking to former bookkeeper turned novice actor Jack Elam and talked 20th Century-Fox boss Darryl F. Zanuck into signing him to a contract, beginning with the Power movie "American Guerrilla in the Philippines" (1950).
Director Henry Hathaway retained the music from his film Brigham Young: Frontiersman (1940) and also used Tyrone Power and Dean Jagger from that film.
This was Susan Hayward's first film for 20th Century-Fox after Walter Wanger sold her contract to the studio.
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