The kidnapping story element was directly and intentionally based on the recent real life sensational kidnap of Patty Hearst which was topical and in still in the recent memory and public consciousness as it had been in 1974 just a couple of years before the movie debuted in 1976.
The movie is a ''softcore sexploitation film'' according to the Wikipedia website.
The amount of the ransom was US $2 million.
Debut theatrical feature film directed by Roberto Mitrotti, as well as for producing, and also his first produced screenplay for the same.
New York store and restaurant decorator and renown designer Adam Tihany was the film's art director and designed the sets for the film.