This was the last film produced at the Hal Roach Studios.
Manuel Padilla Jr. who plays little Rafael became more known in the 1970s for playing Carlos, one of the Pharaohs, in George Lucas' American Graffiti (1973) and for playing Squirt, a similar character, in the 1974 Happy Days episode Knock Around the Block.
$81,000 in 1963 is worth nearly $784,000 in 2022.