Originally produced as a television special on NBC on November 26, 1957.
The music is predominately adapted from Edvard Grieg compositions including "Peer Gynt."
Based on the poem of the same name by Robert Browning, much of the dialogue is written in rhyme.
This was the first motion picture ever made for television.
The Emissary was played by Jim Backus who also played Thurston Howell III from Gilligan's Island (1964).