The actors portraying "teenagers" Mike, Terry, and Jane were age 25, 26, and 27 when the movie was released.
An advertising campaign tried to promote Molly McCart's short haircut as the next fashion, but it failed to catch on.
The newspaper that Mike reads contains a story with the headline "Mercury New X-ray Source, Two Scientists Report." This same story appears in many movies and TV shows with newspaper close-up scenes. In real life it originally appeared in newspapers in 1934.
The girls are being taken to juvenile prison in a 1955 Ford Country Squire. Mike chases them down in a 1940 Ford V-8 DeLuxe Fordor.