The film studios where Totò Esposito (Totò) works are former film studios Ponti-De Laurentiis in Via della Vasca Navale 5, Rome. As of 2020 they are the seat of the State Institute for Cinematography and Television dedicated to Roberto Rossellini.
The shop where Totò Esposito (Totò) jumps the line is located in Piazza delle Cinque Scole 22, Rome. As of 2020 it's a travel agency. The immediately following scene wasn't filmed in Rome but in nearby Albano Laziale.
The mental institution where Totò Esposito (Totò) is interned is the hospice Villa Speranza in Rome, still in use as of 2020.
Italian censorship visa # 19418 delivered on 2 August 1955.
Censorship asked to remove several references to politics and some mild female nudity scenes.