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==Hollywood blacklist==
Screenwriter and producer Alfred Palca was accused by the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] in 1953 of being a [[Communist]]. He refused to cooperate with their investigations. No distributor was willing to release the film with his name credited, so he gave the producing credit to his brother-in-law, Anton M. Leader, and the screenwriting credit to his cousin, Arnold Becker, a pediatrician. He never worked in the film industry again. According to Palca, the F.B.I. saw his casting of Poitier as further evidence of his Communism.<ref>{{cite news |first= Bruce |last= Weber |title= Four Decades After He Was Blacklisted, A Writer-Producer Finally Gets Credit |url= https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F03E0D7163EF933A1575BC0A961958260&sec=&spon=|work= [[New York Times]] |date=August 20, 1997 |access-date=2008-05-04 }}</ref>
In 1997, a ceremony at the [[Academy Theatre]] honored blacklisted Hollywood writers and directors and restored Palca's writing credit for the film.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Dinitia |title=Alfred Palca, 78, Screenwriter Blacklisted After Basketball Film |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/22/us/alfred-palca-78-screenwriter-blacklisted-after-basketball-film.html |work=The New York Times |date=22 June 1998}}</ref>
==Reception==
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