Some information by Nick and Mike Campbell on the making of the film:
"We were lucky to have been able to help save the film. Thanks to Ted Nikas, who died in 2011, we were able to print a small number of DVDs. My brother and I, thanks to Ted Nikas' widow, folksinger Susan Renaker Nikas, now own the rights to the film and soundtrack. Tim Morgon performed at the Prison of Socrates Coffeehouse from 1960 to 1965 before moving on to perform for audiences at the Glendale Ice House and later the Pasadena Ice House, once owned and operated by legendary club owner Bob Stane. He now co-owns and operates concerts at the Coffee Gallery Backstage in Altadena, California, not far from the Pasadena Ice House, which is now a comedy club, not a music cabaret.
At the end of this film the cops arrive and everyone runs out of the club. This last scene, for those who need a historical footnote, represents the way that locals used to call the cops when a ruckus was raised. This often happened on Main Street in Balboa because of the bar next door to the Prison of Socrates and at other spots popular at the time and would include a beatnik coffee house. We went to the Prison twice and can confirm how cool everyone was.
Nine years later, in 1974, Jerry Nikas would be killed in a traffic accident, sadly.
My brother and I own the last existing panel of the mural that David Renaker painted and that graced the exterior of the Prison of Socrates. It was painted in 1959 and was probably taken down about 1964, before this movie was made.
The music from this film was composed by several different people including Marion Bartoo and perhaps John Stamatis and a surf group. All pieces of music were recorded exclusively for the film."