[3] The film depicts a one-hour truce agreed to by Union and Confederate soldiers who are on opposite sides of a river.

For Denis's thesis, he searched for an American Civil War short story that was in the public domain to adapt into a film.

[5] Folksinger and songwriter Frank Hamilton composed the original music for the film.

[6] The prestige of the film led Terry to be hired by Charles Laughton as the second unit director of The Night of the Hunter (1955).

[7] Both brothers were then hired to write the screenplay for The Naked and the Dead, which led to film careers for both men.