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.
Debut of actress Carolyn Spahn.
James Gleason plays Pin Streaver, the boxing manager. He would play a boxing manager again as Max Corkle in L'inafferrabile signor Jordan (1941) (for which he received an Oscar nomination), and as Knobby Walsh in the "Joe Palooka" series.
In the movie, Slag and Puff have an argument over whether Ted, their adopted son, will attend Dartmouth College or "State University." In the end, Ted attends "State University," becoming a football star. Ironically, Charles Starrett, who plays Ted, had been a star player on the Dartmouth football team when he began his acting career as an extra in a football movie.
The movie features several future Western actors. John Wayne and George Bancroft would later co-star in the classic Western, Ombre rosse (1939). Charles Starrett starred in a record 131 Westerns, often as the Durango Kid. Child actor Billy Butts appeared in numerous Westerns as a sidekick for Rex Bell and Fred Thomson. And Syd Saylor, who has a minor role in this film, would appear in over 100 Western movies and TV shows, including Mezzogiorno di fuoco (1952), Il cavaliere solitario (1949), and Maverick (1957)