The second train wreck in this film, which is also called "The Wrecker", is the same one that was staged for the climax of Le destructeur (1929). Footage of that crash, not used in the earlier film, was edited together with new shots. Another train wreck was done mostly with models and stock footage from newsreels.
This film received its initial television broadcast in the USA Friday 9 January 1942 on New York City's pioneer television station WNBT (Channel 1).