 The film was shot in South Africa. Since the country was ruled by  strict apartheid (enforced racial separation) laws, stars  Sidney Poitier (qv) and Canada Lee (qv) and producer/director  Zoltan Korda (qv) cooked up a scheme where they told the South  African immigration authorities that Poitier and Lee were not actors  but were Kordas indentured servants; otherwise, the two black  actors and the white director would not have been allowed to  associate with each other while they were in the country.