Director George Marshall's remake of his own film Der große Bluff (1939) which starred James Stewart.
The song "Empty Arms", sung in DESTRY by Mari Blanchard, was used again by Universal in their remake of IMITATION OF LIFE starring Lana Turner where it is lip-synched by Susan Kohner as Sarah Jane Johnson when she is singing in Harry''s Club, a "low down dive".
Final movie of actress Mabel Forrest .
Most of the characters' names were changed from the 1939 version of this movie.
Audie Murphy acted with Alan Hale Jr. in this film. Hale would go on to be Skipper in Gilligans Insel (1964). Murphy made Ritt mit dem Teufel (1954) with Russell Johnson, who played "The Professor" on "Gilligan's Island".