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. Possibly because of legal complications, this title was not included in the original television package, and may never have been actually shown. It has since been released by Universal on DVD.
Executive producers William H. Pine and William C. Thomas formed their own production company, Clarion Productions, at the time this film was made; Pine and Thomas, who were popularly known as "The Dollar Bills" because of their ability to produce quality low-budget films, filmed Albuquerque (1948) as their first color feature, and their breakthrough into higher budgeted productions. It was followed in the same vein by El Paso (1949).
During the escape scene, where Dan White's character Henchman Jackson falls from his rearing horse as he is shot and killed by Lon Chaney and the Crooked Sheriff, the filming would not permit the use of his Stunt Double due to the closeness of the camera. Dan did the entire sequence, but before the studio would permit the shooting, he was insured for fifty thousand dollars. The studio also paid him an extra one thousand dollars for that scene, which was the highest price ever paid an actor for a major stunt.