 The film was shot in 5 days after 6 weeks of rehearsal. Director  Edgar G. Ulmer (qv) said in an interview that the producers raised  the money ($8.000) for the film by hocking furniture. And when the  film laboratory threatened to foreclose on the film because they  hadnt been paid, the head of the International Ladies Garment  Workers Union, David Dubinsky, purchased 75,000 tickets in advance,  after he saw and liked a rough cut of the film.