The film features an early appearance by Rock Hudson playing a competing boxer.

[2] Chandler plays a coal miner who is encouraged by his gambler brother (Stephen McNally) to become a boxer.

"It's my chance to step right up there in a class with Kirk Douglas and Bob Ryan", said Chandler.

[4] To promote the film, Jeff Chandler went two rounds with Jersey Joe Walcott at Polo Grounds in front of 25,000 spectators.

They wrote, "... this story of a fighter, scared and defeated by his own killer instinct, is merely standard for the course.