Portions of the film were shot on location at Jack Ingram Ranch in Woodland Hills, CA and the Santa Susanna Mountains, CA.
Also in the cast, although unbilled, is notable character actor and staple of the Western genre Denver Pyle. A veteran of hundreds of films and TV shows - among them The Alamo (1960), Shenandoah (1965), and Bonnie and Clyde (1967), as the humiliated G-Man Frank Hamer - he is perhaps best known to TV audiences as the head of the comic hillbilly clan the Darlings on The Andy Griffith Show (1960) and as Uncle Jesse on the original The Dukes of Hazzard (1979) TV series.
Billed near the bottom of the cast is Australian-born actor Rod Taylor, making his fourth screen appearance, playing the role of "hothead" "Lem Sutter." Taylor would go on to notable success in such major pictures as Raintree County (1957), The Time Machine (1960), and Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963). He continues to make occasional film and TV appearances to the present.