Chris Haywood, Roderick Williams, and Peter Collingwood worked on this film and the parody Wills & Burke (1985).
With a budget of around $9.3 million (Australian dollars) the picture was at the tine the most expensive Australian film ever to be produced.
Australian Actors Equity opposed the casting of English actor Nigel Havers in the second billed lead role William John Wills but this decision was overturned at the arbitration commission.
When Charlton Heston was approached to play Burke, Trevor Howard was being courted to star opposite him.
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