!!The film
* AwardSnub: Creator/MarleneDietrich was so certain she would be nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as Christine Vole that she recorded a new introduction to her Las Vegas show mentioning her nomination. She was not nominated, and was crushed.
* HarsherInHindsight: Part of the film's plot includes Creator/CharlesLaughton's character recovering from a severe heart attack while defending Tyrone Power. In reality, this would be Power's last complete film - he would die of a heart attack while on the set of his next film less than one year after release of this one.

!!The miniseries
* TearJerker: John Mayhew's suicide at the end of the episode. In fact, everything that happens to him in the last ten minutes of the episode is really heartbreaking. This is a good man who has made some mistakes in the past, who now realises that he has made the worst mistake of his career. This coupled with the state of his marriage and the guilt he feels for causing the death of his son is too much for him to bear.
** Just before the said suicide, we get a close-up look of John's face. It is the perfect picture of a broken man. One day earlier, a man enjoying his holiday with his wife, who as an added bonus met a man he believed to be a friend at the same resort. Come the evening John knows he helped a guilty man (who cannot be tried again) escape his justice and sent an innocent woman to the gallows. His son is long dead due to his own actions and his wife has made it clear that she will forever hate him for it. Alone, with no support and nothing to look forward to, John decides that he cannot live with his guilt any longer and that he has nothing to live for anymore.
** The manner of John's death is also extremely heartbreaking. He doesn't shoot or hang himself, thus granting himself a swift, relatively painless death. Instead, dressed in a fine suit, John goes down to the beach and stands there, just looking out across the horizon. He appears to be in a trance-like state, clearly pondering what he is about to do. Then, just before he starts walking, John smiles slightly to himself as if to say "Yes, this is the right thing to do." With that, John Mayhew calmly takes off his glasses and walks slowly into the sea's embrace, letting the waves wash over and eventually consume him.
** In-universe, John Mayhew breaks down in tears when he first sees Romaine performing "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" at a stage show, likely for allowing him to let go of all the bottled up emotions towards himself and the state of his life and have a big cry, and the next time he goes to see it he enjoys himself without crying since he vented out some of those emotions. And to make the DownerEnding even sadder, when he walks further into the sea during low tide to die, the crescent moon is looming in front of him, which is eerily reminiscent of the stage show in which Romaine sang while sitting on a [[TheManInTheMoon Man in the Moon]] prop. Something that used to give John an emotional outlet has turned out to be the foreshadowing of his demise. ''Good grief''...