- James Bernard was most famous for composing the scores to numerous Hammer horrors, including Dracula (1958). Ironically, however, it was for this film that he won his only Oscar - as co-writer.
- Presently available version, as broadcast on Turner Classic Movies, has been cropped to fit the 16:9 wide screen ratio, despite the fact that it was filmed in the traditional 4:3.
- First original cinema score of John Addison
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- SPOILER: The film has a story very similar to The Peacemaker (1997). In fact they have a number of plot points in the finale that are similar: 1. The final scene of disarming the bomb takes place in a church. 2. The person with the bomb carries it in a small bag: a backpack for The Peacemaker, valise for Seven Days to Noon. 3. The person carrying the bomb is shot at the end, before the bomb is defused. 4. A man and a woman are the people who confront the person with the bomb at the end. 5. Of the man and woman in both movies, one is a nuclear bomb expert: in Seven Days to Noon it's the man; in The Peacemaker, it's the woman.
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