When a British patrol boat arrives sooner than expected, Dillon is forced to join the Jews in their flight for freedom.

[10] Production took place on Universal's backlot with location work at Monterey, California, the San Fernando Valley and Victorville in the Mojave Desert.

Universal barred reporters from the set during the last week of filming because several London papers had carried adverse articles on the project.

There were demonstrations and disturbances outside the New Gallery cinema, near Piccadilly in London, when the film opened there on 2 February 1950, and pamphlets supporting Oswald Mosley's fascist Union Movement were distributed to people wanting to see it.

It ignored a protest from the National Council for Civil Liberties, which claimed that its action constituted a ban on free speech.