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Charlton Heston improvised during the argument scene between Eleanor Parker and himself. It was not scripted that he splash perfume all over her. This move intensified the action and a surprised Parker was able to react accordingly.
The scenes where the bridges were dynamited was filmed in Florahome, Florida. A local resident died when he was thrown from his horse, which had been spooked during the explosion.
While preparing to shoot the sequence where Leiningen pours oil on himself to repel the ants, Charlton Heston was told that oil would ruin his wardrobe so syrup would be used instead. Heston spent a miserable day on location as the oil attracted every insect for miles.
William Conrad, who plays the commissioner in this movie, played the lead role of Leiningen four times in radio adaptations of the original Carl Stephenson story: three times in 1948 on the radio program "Escape" and once in 1957 on the radio program "Suspense".
Stock footage of this movie was used in MacGyver: Trumbo's World (1985), in which MacGyver and a plantation owner fight an army of ants.
"Joanna Leiningen: Do you think this moat will stop them? Christopher Leiningen: Ants are strictly land creatures. They can't swim. Right, Incacha? Incacha: Monkeys not swim also. They cross rivers even so. Christopher Leiningen: The intelligence of monkeys is more than ants, less than man. Incacha: Is so. [laughing] Incacha: When ants come, monkeys run."
"Joanna Leiningen: If you knew anything about music, you'd know that the best piano is one that's been played."
