The film stars Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak, Ernie Kovacs, Barbara Rush and Walter Matthau.

The picture was filmed in Los Angeles, with scenes shot in Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Bel Air, Santa Monica and Malibu.

He meets with Roger Altar, an author, to discuss building a house that will be an "experiment" and something Coe wants to do more of, something original.

After confronting him, they agree to stay together and move to Hawaii, where Larry has been offered a job to design a city.

Art director Ross Bellah elected to have a real house built for the one that Larry Coe is designing for Roger Altar in the film.

Bellah, with architect Carl Anderson, designed an all-wood 3,800-square-foot house and had it built on a hillside lot in Bel Air.

Variety said that the film is "...easy on the eyes but hard on the intellect...an old-fashioned soap opera", and that "It is a rather pointless, slow-moving story, but it has been brought to the screen with such skill that it charms the spectator into an attitude of relaxed enjoyment, much the same effect as that produced by a casual daydream fantasy".

[4] "Unvaried strangulated hush" is how film critic Stanley Kauffmann, in The New Republic, described Novak's diction.