Heath was the product of an affair that the family patriarch, Tom Barkley, had with a woman named Leah. Tom never knew about Heath.
The statue of Tom Barkley is also used in the show 'The Wild Wild West (1965)' in 'The Night of the Colonel's Ghost (1967)' and named for a different person.
Closing credits: The events, characters and firms depicted in this photoplay are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual firms is purely coincidental.
Barbara Stanwyck (Victoria Barkley) and John Harmon (Storekeeper) previously appeared in The Lady Gambles (1949).