One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. Its earliest documented telecast took place in Phoenix Sunday 22 February 1959 on KVAR (Channel 12), followed by Milwaukee 25 April 1959 on WITI (Channel 6), by Asheville 24 May 1959 on WLOS (Channel 13), by Denver 24 July 1959 on KBTV (Channel 9), by Omaha 26 July 1959 on KETV (Channel 7), by both Chicago and Grand Rapids 22 November 1959 on WBBM (Channel 2) and WOOD (Channel 8), by Philadelphia 22 November 1959 on WCAU (Channel 10), by San Francisco 7 December 1959, on KPIX (Channel 5), by Johnstown 1 January 1960 on WJAC (Channel 6), and by Toledo 3 March 1960 on WTOL (Channel 11). It was released on DVD 8 May 2007 as one of of 4 titles in Universal's Classic Western Roundup Volume 2.
On March 23, 1938, Randolph Scott was carrying Joan Bennett during the filming of a mob scene, when an actor playing a soldier lost his balance and struck Bennett in the face with his bayonet, causing a cut that required her to go to the hospital. An item about it was carried in newspapers throughout the country, often close to another item about her sister Constance Bennett's libel suit against gossip columnist Jimmy Fidler.
The first film in which Walter Brennan opens the Abilene Trail, herding beef from Texas to Abilene after the Civil War. First, with Randolph Scott here, then again in Red River (1948) with John Wayne. Brennan plays essentially the same role in both films.