The film was made and first released about nine years after its source novel 'Snow Lark' by Ronald Sutherland had been first published in 1971.
The picture had its World Premiere in 1980 in Toronto in Ontario, Canada at the Festival of Festivals.
The movie was marketed as an ''adult title'' on home video cassette during the 1980s in such territories as Australia (on Star Video) and Italy (on RCA Columbia Pictures International Video).