The film also credits the photographer Helen Levitt as an assistant director and Verna Fields as the sound editor.

When her old friend, the chief of police (Peter Falk), asks her to impersonate the missing queen in order to reassure the people and halt the revolution, she offers instead that three of her customers play the general, bishop and chief justice, all of whom have died in the revolution.

[4] Shortly after its release, the film was negatively reviewed by The New York Times' critic Bosley Crowther,[5] but favorably reviewed in Variety: "With Jean Genet's apparent approval, Joe Strick and Ben Maddow have eliminated the play's obscene language (though it's still plenty rough) and clarified some of its obscurations.

It’s a film that reaches to the very heart of why our society works in the way it does, and presents unrelenting questions and dilemmas.

I didn't know it at the time, but Strick had pledged his entire worth in order to get the bank loan to make the film.