Director Christopher Fraser has said of this film: "It's been 23 years since I have commented on this film. I was the director and it was my first film. As far as I was concerned it was never finished. Despite the ludicrously low budget it could have been so much better than it turned out. All the leading actors fell into a serious argument with the producer and refused to continue working on the project. I never expected to see it on the screen. The producer and editor padded out the film with meaningless bits of irrelevant stock footage to make the required length of 87mins to qualify for a feature film. As you can imagine I was disappointed and embarrassed. Some parts of the movie actually work very well. There was a lot of spontaneous adlib especially between Mel [Gibson] and Steve [Bisley]. The first time we saw Mel [Gibson] in closeup in a viewing theater someone said "He's going to be a star". I thought so too. One day I'll tell the whole story. It's more complex and funny than the film itself."
Since the international success of Mel Gibson after this movie was made, Gibson frequently has received top / first billing on home-video cassette and DVD covers and promotional materials for this movie. Gibson's billing on the opening credits is actually fourth and Gibson has the smallest of the four lead guy roles.
Mel Gibson sports peroxided lighter brown colored hair in this movie. Due to this, Gibson's overall complexion is markedly different in this film compared to his other movies where his hair is usually a lot darker.
This film was the first of three pictures that actors Steve Bisley and Mel Gibson both appeared in. The second was Mad Max (1979) whilst the third and final movie was The Chain Reaction (1980) where Gibson makes just a cameo.
This movie was made around the time that actors Mel Gibson and Steve Bisley were drama students / graduates at the Australian National Institute for Dramatic Arts (NIDA).