Fans regard this as the last true Laurel and Hardy film. It was their final film made for Hal Roach. It would also be the last film in which they would have significant input.
The title was a pun on the 1937 film Âmes à la mer (1937), starring Gary Cooper, but the two films otherwise have nothing in common.
Within months of this film's release, both Ben Turpin and Charley Chase passed away. Laurel and Hardy veteran Harry Bernard passed away approximately six months after the release.
The only Laurel & Hardy film directed by Gordon Douglas. In the 1930s, Douglas worked his way up at the Roach studio from office boy to principal director of the "Our Gang" films (1936-38), winning the series its only Academy Award for Bored of Education (1936).