An abundance of stock Technicolor footage from earlier films, particularly Joan of Arc (1948), is used to advantage, but some scratched black and white clips from a much earlier and unidentifiable film give the game away.
Don C. Harvey, playing one of John Derek's loyal men, is shown, stripped to the waist, being flogged across his bare back inside a dungeon. Just three years earlier in "Chain Gang," Harvey plays a prison-camp guard who callously watches as a stripped-to-the-waist prisoner is flogged across HIS bare back.