This film was not successful at the box office and made Jack L. Warner rethink putting Errol Flynn in non-adventure pictures. Flynn, worried about being typecast, lobbied Warner to do other films - screwball comedies in particular.
The fourth of nine movies made together by Warner Brothers' romantic couple Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn.
This film presents one of the largest and most elaborate model train sets ever seen in a motion picture. In the race, Bob's locomotive is a Lionel Union Pacific M-10000 "Streamliner" (model #752E), and Dillingwell's is a Lionel New York Central "Hudson" (model #700E).
Supposedly based on the career of Ivy Ledbetter Lee (1877-1934), often called "the father of public relations", who worked for the Rockefeller family.
Bob's salary of $1,500 per week to return to the newspaper would be the equivalent of over $25,600 per week in 2016.
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