Per "The New Yorker" (11/27/2017), Winston Churchill watched this movie and pronounced Marlene Dietrich "very alluring" the night before British battleships attacked and sank the German battleship Bismarck.
Original working title: "Tropical Sinners"
Director Tay Garnett said that John Wayne and Marlene Dietrich were crazy about each other, and every crew member was also mad about her--including Garnett himself.