The Nielsen TV rating for the program was 18,864,000 "homes reached during an average minute" of the broadcast. "Ratings", Broadcasting-Telecasting, 6 May 1957, p. 51
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The film was shot in two versions, the Todd-AO one, distributed by Mike Todd's Magna productions, and a CinemaScope version for theatres that were not, at that time, able to handle Todd-AO. The Cinemascope version was released by RKO a year after the Todd-AO version and is the one that most audiences have seen.[要出典]
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