The escaped convict Bart Moore is played by Paul Kelly, who himself spent 25 months during the late 1920s in California's San Quentin State Prison. He was convicted of manslaughter for the beating death of actor Ray Raymond, the first husband of actress Dorothy Mackaye, who was having an affair with Kelly and would later marry him. Kelly's next film was Duffy of San Quentin (1954), where he plays the title role - the warden of the prison where he himself did time.
Penultimate film shot at RKO's "Encino Ranch" before the studio, under Howard Hughes, sold it for a housing development.
(at around 21 mins) Dottie says she's from Pittsburgh, and when Larry asks didn't she like it, she replies, "I don't know; I never got a look at it." Pittsburgh was called "Hell with the lid off" due to its heavy industry of steel production which required a lot of coal burning. The smoke in the city was so thick that mid-morning looked like night.
The only film put into production at RKO after Howard Hughes sold the studio to an outside syndicate in September 1952 until he bought it back in February 1953.