"Captain Fury" was Marvin Hatley's last film as music director of the Hal Roach Studios (1930-1939). While recording the soundtrack, he noticed copying errors in the score for one cue and asked an assistant to fix them before they continued with the session. Frank Ross, a new associate producer on the Roach lot, calculated the cost of 65 musicians waiting 15 minutes while being paid $10 an hour, and promptly reported Hatley's so-called inefficiency to the executive board. The composer's contract was terminated soon afterwards. Roach then had to hire several people to fulfill all of Hatley's former duties. At the insistence of Stan Laurel, Hatley returned to write scores for "A Chump at Oxford" (1940) and "Saps at Sea" (1940), the final Laurel & Hardy features produced by Roach.
This film was first telecast in Los Angeles Sunday 8 August 1948 on KTLA (Channel 5), in St. Louis Tuesday 28 December 1948 on KSD (Channel 5) , in Detroit Sunday 9 January 1949 on WWJ (Channel 4), in Boston Sunday 1 May 1949 on WBZ (Channel 4), in Atlanta Wednesday 20 July 1949 on WSB (Channel 8), in Fort Worth Friday 29 July 1949 on WBAP (Channel 5), in Philadelphia Saturday 10 September 1949 on WCAU (Channel 10), in Cincinnati Sunday 2 October 1949 on WCPO (Channel 7), and in New York City Friday 29 December 1950 on WPIX (Channel 11), as part of their series of three dozen Hal Roach feature film productions, originally theatrically released between 1931 and 1943, and now being syndicated for television broadcast by Regal Television Pictures. Its New York City telecast was most likely delayed in order to protect the theatrical engagements of its re-release in tandem with Captain Caution (1940) which were still in progress.
Rondo Hatton can be spotted at the 9 minute mark as a convict seated on the floor as the guards escort the new prisoners to the mess hall.
In or around 1965/1966 "Captain Fury" was cut by the UK distributor into an 8-part serial. Played at the Jacey cartoon and news theatre on Charing Cross Road in London's West End, as part of the 75-minute show.