Although this film was a box-office failure in 1932, it later had admirers. One of them was the movie historian William K. Everson. In an Everson and Sir Alfred Hitchcock interview in 1972, Everson showed his admiration for this movie, and also praised the bus and train chase scene. Hitchcock was delighted by Everson's enthusiasm, and went on to explain how one of the sequences in the bus and train chase scene was shot.
Close to the end, the train crashes into the ferry, and then into the sea. Parts of this scene were shown in Poirot (1989) episode The ABC Murders (1992), at approximately one hour and ten minutes, when Cust is watching the movie in the Doncaster cinema.
This was Sir Alfred Hitchcock's last movie as a director for British International Pictures, though he made one more movie for them as a producer: Le signore di lord Camber (1932), directed by Benn W. Levy.
The locomotive involved in the chase was LNER (London North Eastern Railway) no. 2547, the "Doncaster", an A1 class locomotive built in 1924. It continued in service into 1963, by which time LNER had become part of British Railways and its number had been changed to 60048.