[1] After the film's release, Shonteff went to England following his friend and fellow Canadian Sidney J. Furie.
[2] Shonteff had to cut the horror tale of a ventriloquist's dummy for an X rating from the British Board of Film Censors.
The film was picked up for American and international release by Joseph E. Levine; it was re-edited and retitled The Second Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World.
In addition, Shonteff directed the 1971 sex drama The Yes Girls and the rarely seen crime thriller The Fast Kill in 1972.
Shonteff's later work included How Sleep the Brave, a Vietnam War project, filmed in England in 1981.