- Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): When Billy Ray is circling the sailboat in the lake, you can see the shadow of helicopter used to film the scene.
- Later produced as a live TV production - rare for TV theatrical presentations since the invention of videotape in the late 1950s. It starred Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer (who had previously co-starred in The Sound of Music (1965)) and was broadcast on CBS on April 29, 2001.
- Henry Fonda won the Oscar for Best Actor in a leading role for his role as Norman Thayer, Jr. At 76 (actually 76 years and 317 days), he was the oldest actor to win the Best Actor Oscar. He is also the only actor to win the Best Actor Academy Award aged in his seventies. Fonda though is not the oldest actor to win an Academy Award for acting as George Burns won a Supporting Actor Oscar for The Sunshine Boys (1975/I) at age 80 (actually 80 years and 69 days).
- Charges were set at the front of the Thayer's boat so that it blew up prior to hitting the big rock in Purgatory Cove. The vintage wooden U22-Sportsman Chris-Craft boat proved so durable that it bounced off the rocks without any damage during the early takes of the scene.
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