This filmed adaptation of an Edgar Allan Poe source poem was green-lit with the intention on cashing in on the 1960s cycle of Poe pictures. This had been a decade which had already featured seven Poe pictures first released prior to this 1965 movie and every one of them had starred Vincent Price who also headlined this Poe picture.
Actress Susan Hart stated that this movie's screenplay written by Charles Bennett was significantly re-written [by screenwriter Louis M. Heyward].