McCarthy (Ward Bond) is labeled as a "blatherskite" in the opening credits. The Oxford Dictionary defines a blatherskite as "a person who talks at great length without making much sense".
William Bendix, who plays Nick, originated the part of Krupp on the stage. Broderick Crawford is Krupp in the film.
The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.
A Cagney family affair, with siblings James, Jeanne and William working on the film in front of and behind the camera.