Tom Goldie: "Tom Goldie's Telenews: Steel on Your Screen,"The Times (Tuesday, ngày 7 tháng 7 năm 1959), p. 8. "Producer John Jacobs had a hard time filling the role of the husband. He wanted Ernest Borgnine, or Karl Malden, or Anthony Quinn, but none of them was available. Then he saw Persoff playing a featured role in the film, Al Capone, and promptly invited him to come over from America specially for Clash by Night.