The film introduces Corinne Calvet and features Sam Jaffe, John Bromfield, and Kenny Washington in supporting roles.

Hunting guide Mike Davis (Burt Lancaster) comes across a cache of diamonds in a mining area, located in a remote region of South West Africa.

According to the Paramount Collection at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) library, the desert sequences were shot in Yuma, Arizona.

Although William Dieterle's direction is capable, the script works too hard to introduce an overly familiar collection of stock thriller types ...

Critics generally liked Lancaster's performance, even if they slighted the work of Claude Rains and Peter Lorre, and saved the bulk of their praise for Paul Henried's nasty villain.