- Cast the Runner-Up: Audrey Hepburn was considered for a larger role in this film, but stage work made her unavailable. Alec Guinness was impressed with the young actress and arranged for her to appear in a bit part. This is considered to be Hepburn's first appearance in a major film.
- Executive Meddling: The studio vetoed the original ending in which Holland gets away with the crime. Apparently, it would have cost them the American market due to violating The Hays Code, which stated that criminals must receive their comeuppance. They added in the ending where Holland admits that he is handcuffed and is being arrested.
- Fatal Method Acting: Averted. During the filming of the scene where Holland and Pendlebury are pursuing the Eiffel Tower paperweights in Paris, Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway both nearly fell off the real Eiffel Tower. How this came about, has never been revealed.
- Inspiration for the Work: Screenwriter T. E. B. Clarke is said to have come up with the idea of a clerk robbing his own bank while doing research for the film Pool of London, a crime thriller surrounding a jewel theft. He consulted the Bank of England on the project, and it set up a special committee to advise on how best the robbery could take place.
- Uncredited Role: Fred Griffiths as a taxi driver.
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