 Producer Roger Corman (qv) said that the company was supposed to  shoot two days in front of a high school in East Prairie, Missouri,  but when the townspeople got wind of what the film was about, they  were ordered out of town after the first day. They were also thrown  out of Charleston, Missouri, when the authorities there found out  that the message of the film was against racism and segregation, not  for them. Corman also noted that it was the first film he ever made  that lost money.