Humphrey Bogart initially refused to play in this movie; he agreed when his weekly salary was raised by $200.
Nat Pendleton had been a champion collegiate wrestler and won the Silver Medal in the 1920 Olympics.
Adapted from a Broadway play by Kenyon Nicholson and Charles Robinson. The original stage production opened at the Booth Theatre in New York on October 18, 1936 and ran for 105 performances. The opening night cast included John Alexander, Walter Baldwin, Hope Emerson, Matt McHugh, and Dennie Moore.
One of the films included in "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and how they got that way)" by Harry Medved and Randy Lowell.