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** Creator/MichaelCaine, who would go on to play working-class Cockney characters throughout his career, plays a snobby aristocratic officer with a posh accent in this movie -- his first. Caine later commented that he was lucky the film's director was Cy Endfield, an American[[note]]Endfield had been [[UsefulNotes/TheHollywoodBlacklist blacklisted]] due to his political beliefs and spent his later career in the UK[[/note]] -- a British director at that time would ''never'' have cast a Cockney actor as an aristocrat.

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** Creator/MichaelCaine, who would go on to play working-class Cockney characters throughout his career, plays a snobby aristocratic officer with a posh accent in this movie -- his first.first lead role. Caine later commented that he was lucky the film's director was Cy Endfield, an American[[note]]Endfield had been [[UsefulNotes/TheHollywoodBlacklist blacklisted]] due to his political beliefs and spent his later career in the UK[[/note]] -- a British director at that time would ''never'' have cast a Cockney actor as an aristocrat.
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* ReferencedBy: In ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', the Praetorians are an Imperial Guard regiment based on the movie's British troops. They see little use these days due to ValuesDissonance and a growing awareness of colonialism.

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