Walt Disney is credited as Retlaw Yensid for the movie's original story. The pseudonym is the name of Walter Disney reversed.
The only ever film where Walt Disney received a credit for writing a story, billed under the pseudonym of "Retlaw Yensid".
The production was granted permission to shoot on the USN aircraft carrier the USS Kitty Hawk. As such, because of this, studio head Walt Disney scheduled the film's world premiere on the ship with its crew being the only invited guests.
The second of three films that Dick Van Dyke made for the Disney Studios, the other two being Mary Poppins (1964) and Never a Dull Moment (1968).
The Disney studio gave this movie a major cinema re-release in 1974.