The film was originally called The Pancho Villa Story.[5]
The film was shot back to back with Sierra Baron in Mexico, in and around Cherabusco Studios in Mexico City.[6][7]
Pedro Armendáriz was meant to play Pancho Villa but he was replaced by Rodolfo Hoyos.[8]
Margia Dean recalled the director "was a former film editor. He’d fill the camera with pictorial things, unnatural things. Brian Keith and I had a love scene, but I had my back to him—we couldn’t look into each other's eyes. That director was shooting for the scenery. He made it uncomfortable, and thus made it hard to be convincing. I remember they built this Indian village—and a portable toilet. One fella in the cast was urinating and the thing blew away. Cesar Romero was... the only one good in the picture—I didn’t like myself or Brian Keith, but of course we had the terrible direction."[9]
