Four of the Five Leads Were Dead Within Eight Years!

Wow, this film has an astonishing mortality rate with it's leads especially given they were all youngish people under 45. Just eight years after the film's release, four of the five main performers were dead.

Marie McDonald died two years after the film, an apparent suicide.

Jayne Mansfield was killed in a car crash four years after the film.

Tommy Noonan died of a brain tumor five years after the film.

T. C. Jones died of cancer eight years after the film.

Only Mickey Hargitay of the five main characters survived into old age, dying a few years ago.