In the mirage sequence the skeleton is voiced by Candy Candido, who would team up with Bud Abbott after Lou Costello died.
The professional wrestling element of the story was used because professional wrestling had become a sensation in those early years in that new medium of television. Some famous professional wrestlers were cast in the film.
Douglass Dumbrille plays a corrupt Arab sheikh, just as he had done in Abbott and Costello's other Middle Eastern spoof, "Lost in a Harem (1944)."
This film, among several others in the Abbott and Costello canon, calls upon music cues from Frank Skinner's iconic score from "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)."
Filming was originally scheduled to begin in December 1949, but was postponed when Lou Costello had to undergo an operation for a gangrenous gall bladder in November 1949. Despite having a stunt double, Costello did his own wrestling in the film, only to be rewarded with a wrenched arm socket and a stretched tendon.