To receive an 'A' (PG) cinema certificate some brief nudity was removed from the striptease scene. DVD releases are fully uncut.
Arthur, the 'drag act' performing on the night Harold meets Zita, is Patrick Fyffe - who a few short years later would become Dame Hilda Bracket, of the hugely popular musical comedy act 'Hinge and Bracket'.
Harry H Corbett was 46 years old during filming (playing 39), Wilfred Brambell was 59 (playing 70) and Carolyn Seymour (Zita) was only 23.
There are two references to famous British poems in the film: "... into the Valley of Death" from 'The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred Lord Tennyson and "the corner of a foreign field that is forever England" from ' The Soldier' by Rupert Brooke.
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