Buck Mansfield quotes twice from the Bible. The first occasion is when he is being pursued by his creditors and he reads from Proverbs 31:10 -12 and 21 (...Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies....). The second instance is when he speaks to the bartender at Vendig's function and the quote is from Obadiah 1: 2-4 (...Though you set your nest among the stars, From there I will bring you down ...).
Terra Distributors' VHS copy is a truncated version, running only 86 minutes, not the full 104 minutes.
One of thirty feature films produced between 1946 and 1948 whose financial failure resulted in their ownership being taken over by Bank of America for non-payment of loans, and subsequently sold to Mundus Television in 1954 for television broadcast at a reported total of $45 million.
Released on DVD by Olive Films in 2013, at its full length (104 min.), and very good quality.
On its release, British reviewer C.A. Lejeune wrote:
"Beginning pictures at the end
Is, I'm afraid a modern trend;
But I'd find Ruthless much more winning
If it could end at the beginning."