"A three weeks' location trip to Pendleton, Oregon... ...was the most extensive location trip out of Paramount in well nigh four years - in fact, since the advent of talking pictures. No one seems to have done much locations since we started working before the microphones." - Richard Arlen in The New Movie Magazine, November, 1933
During exterior location filming, a Paramount cast and crew of 40, stayed at the Hotel Pendleton, Pendleton, Oregon. The male leads, Chester Morris and Richard Arlen were accompanied by their wives, Suzanne (Kilbourne) and Jobyna (Ralston).
"Pendleton [Oregon] has not only its famous Western atmosphere but is the center of one of the greatest wheat countries in the world. We filmed the wheat, chartered a twenty-five-car freight train for the farm riot scenes, used several hundred local extras, gave three "bits" to local people and had five actors fly down from a Portland stock company one day to play brief but important roles." - Richard Arlen in The New Movie Magazine, November, 1933.
"Gags were flying back and forth at odd moments throughout the trip [up to Pendleton, Oregon], but the best was framed by Roscoe Ates on Chester Morris. Chet arrived two days after the rest of us. Ates hired a group of boys to meet him at the station. Each was given a sign to carry which read: "Welcome Chester Conklin." - Richard Arlen in The New Movie Magazine, November, 1933
One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since; ; this film's earliest documented telecast took place in Charlotte NC Monday 23 November 1959 on WSOC (Channel 9); it first aired in Philadelphia 7 March 1960 on WCAU (Channel 10) and in New York City Monday 21 March 1960 on WCBS (Channel 2) on each station's Movie Museum series on the Late, Late Show.