Paramount leased the land owned by a local Sun Valley silver prospector, Gus Anderson, for 500 dollars and built a movie set complete with a Swiss-like lodge the Andersons moved into after filming was completed.
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on February 4, 1940 with Melvyn Douglas and Robert Young reprising their film roles.
Robert Young was on loan to Paramount from MGM.
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. Its earliest documented telecast took place in Seattle Monday 24 November 1958 on KIRO (Channel 7) , followed by Boston Wednesday 7 January 1959 on WBZ (Channel 4); it first aired in Omaha 11 January 1960 on KETV (Channel 7), in Minneapolis 18 January 1960 on WTCN (Channel 11), and in Toledo 30 January 1959 on WTOL (Channel 11). It was released on DVD 23 November 2009 as one of the six titles in Universal's Claudette Colbert Collection, and again 5 August 2014 as part of the Universal Vault Series.