This film stars Alan Ladd whose arguably most successful film, Shane (1953), filmed prior to this movie, was released in the same year as this picture. Ladd appeared in four films in 1953, the others being Desert Legion (1953) and Botany Bay (1952).
This was a British war movie with an American lead, Alan Ladd. The producers were very careful that this movie did not create the furor that Objective, Burma! (1945) had triggered eight years before. That movie was pulled from release in Britain after just one week. It was banned there after heated protests from British veterans groups and the military establishment. As the Burma campaign was a predominantly British and Australian operation, the picture was taken as a national insult due to the movie's Americanization of the Burma operation. The resentment that many felt was seen as yet another example of Americans believing they had won the war single-handedly. But there was still some criticism that an American was playing the lead in this movie. So for Paratrooper (1953), criticism was fended off by Ladd telling the media: "The story is of a Canadian [i.e. of the British Commonwealth and not an American] who joins the British Paratroopers in order to learn, not teach the job. All the big decisions in the film are made by the British."
After Albert R. Broccoli and Irving Allen split dissolving their production company Warwick Films, many of the crew from this movie (who also had worked extensively on other Warwick pictures) went on to work on the James Bond movies with Broccoli. These included stuntman Bob Simmons; screen-writer Richard Maibaum; camera operator / cinematographer Ted Moore; and director Terence Young.