Several books on Sir Michael Caine have alleged that the cast and crew were not paid because of cash problems. Caine admitted this in his 1992 autobiography "What's It All About?"
This version covers both the novel "Kidnapped" and the first half of its sequel "Catriona".
Michael Caine wrote in his autobiography, he realized after three months of filming, that the film would be a failure. He was smoking about four packs of cigarettes a day, and drinking heavily, and decided to take a break in the countryside.
The director of photography Paul Beeson was also the director of photography for Kidnapped (1960), another adaptation of the 1884 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.