 After the film was released theatrically in October 1958 there was some  controversy with the scene where Dr. Seidel tells his students that the  chance to win at a gambling machine is 1:37. A German lobby organization  protested against this, stating that the chance to win is fixed at 1:4 by  law. The result was that after 30th January 1959 a statement was put at the  beginning of the film citing the error.