Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Lucy Harbin: Leave me alone! Leave me alone! I`m not guilty! I`m not guilty! Lucy Harbin: [to Michael] You sit down here with Carrol because I wouldn`t want her to think I was taking her father away from her.
Lucy Harbin: Carol, you want a drink?
Carol Harbin: No thank you, Mother.
Lucy Harbin: But it`s a celebration.
First little girl: Lucy Harbin took an axe, gave her husband forty whacks, when she saw what she had done, she gave his girlfriend forty one.
Carol Harbin: [Lucy storms out to find two girls playing jump rope] What is it, Mother?
Lucy Harbin: I heard them...
First little girl: London bridge is falling down, falling down, London bridge is falling down, my fair lady.
Carol Harbin: It`s just a nursery rhyme, mother.
Second little girl: Take the key and lock her up, lock her up, lock her up, take the key and lock her up, my fair lady.
Carol Harbin: I hate you! I hate you! I hate you! No I didn`t mean that, I love you. I hate you!
Carol Harbin: Their first mistake was thinking that the child was asleep, the second mistake was that the wife had decided to come home that night on the train.
Lucy Harbin: [shakes Lucy`s bracelets] Where did you get those?
Carol Harbin: I saved them, I remember the way they used to jangle when you picked me up to kiss me goodnight.
Trivia
The storyline for the movie was originally to end at the scene in the Fields` home after Lucy Harbin has exposed her daughter Carol who is seen ranting and raving about how she had planned everything, but Joan Crawford used her considerable clout to push for and receive an additional scene afterward which showcased her explaining everything to her brother, thus having the movie end with the audience`s last impression being of Joan Crawford.
In the kitchen scenes at the beginning of the movie, a carton of Pepsi-Cola is prominently displayed on the counter. Joan Crawford was the widow of Alfred Steele, who had been CEO of the Pepsi-Cola Company, and at the time of filming Crawford was still on the Board of Directors. This was undoubtedly part of Joan Crawford`s contract. Product placement occurs in at least one other Joan Crawford movie, Berserk! (1967).
The Columbia Logo at the end of the film spoofs the headless theme of the movie. It features a headless Columbia lady raising her famous torch, with her head lying at her feet.
This film is listed among The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson`s book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIEŽ MOVIE GUIDE.
Lee Majors got the small role of playing Lucy Harbin`s (Joan Crawford`s) husband in the flashback scene after his good friend Rock Hudson asked William Castle to please find a part for the then 23-year-old actor.
Joan Crawford, then on the Pesi-Cola Board of Directors, demanded that product placement shots be included in all her films of this era. Look for an incongruous six-pack on the counter during a kitchen scene with Diane Baker.
Joan Crawford required the script be completely rewritten to her specifications before she agreed to sign on to the film.
At Joan Crawford`s insistence, Anne Helm was replaced by Diane Baker shortly after filming began.
Although he`s not credited, this was the first acting role for Lee Majors.
The doctor in the movie was not an actor but was actually the vice-president of the Pepsi-Cola Company. Joan Crawford had made this arrangement without consulting with producer William Castle.
Joan Crawford had script and cast approval.
Joan Blondell was originally set to play the title role but because of an accident she was replaced with Joan Crawford.
The sound effect for the heads being chopped off was the prop man wielding an ax and cutting a watermelon in half.
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