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. Its initial television broadcast took place in Chicago Friday 9 January 1959 on WBBM (Channel 2); after several months on the shelf, it was finally taken out of the vaults and started making the rounds; it first aired in Boston 3 August 1959 on WBZ (Channel 4), in Pittsburgh 10 October 1959 on KDKA (Channel 2), in Hartford 29 October 1959 on WTIC (Channel 3), in Seattle 2 November 1959 on KIRO (Channel 7), in Omaha 4 November 1959 on KETV (Channel 7), in Milwaukee 4 December 1959 on WITI (Channel 6), in Detroit 28 December 1959 on WJBK (Channel 2), in Philadelphia 9 January 1960 on WCAU (Channel 10), in Des Moines 24 February 1960 on WHO (Channel 13), in Huntington, West Virginia 29 February 1960 on WHTN (Channel 13), and in Asheville, North Carolina 21 March 1960 on WLOS (Channel 13).