Anecdotes

In October of 1996 a fire broke out on a late Saturday afternoon in the New York studios of WNBC-TV (Channel 4). A station staffer quickly put a cassette of this film in the tape player on his way out of the building. The film played uninterrupted twice, much to the confusion of viewers.

The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.

Jake says the dress in his steamer truck is a holdover from playing in "Charley's Aunt", a farce first produced on the stage in 1892, which would place the action of the movie in the 20th century.

The earliest documented telecasts of this film occurred in Detroit Saturday 5 February 1949 on WXYZ (Channel 7), in Syracuse Sunday 22 May 1949 on WHEN (Channel 8), in Cincinnati Friday 29 July 1949 on WCPO (Channel 7), in Los Angeles Wednesday 21 September 1949 on KTSL (Channel 2) and Saturday 18 February 1950 on KECA (Channel 7), in Atlanta Friday 30 September 1949 on WSB (Channel 8), and in New York City Monday 14 August 1950 on WOR (Channel 9).

When they find banker Willams beaten, Jake tells Sheriff Miller to get the doctor, but the sheriff replies, "It's too late", indicating the man has died, and Jake is arrested for murder. But after Jake is exonerated and the sheriff's son Al is arrested, we find out that Williams is alive and expected to recover. At this point, both Williams and Al disappear from the film.