Oliver Hardy was injured during the filming of the scene in which Stan Laurel keeps nicking him with a pickaxe. A rubber pickaxe was originally to have been used for the scene, but it was decided that it looked too fake, in action, so a real one was substituted. Hardy moved a little too close to Laurel during the latter's backswing and received a very real cut from the pickaxe on his rear.
This is one of the few Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy films shot almost entirely outdoors, with very little studio work.
This was filmed before Laurel Hardy adopted "The Cukoos" as their theme song, and like several others, had a popular song played during the credits. This one featured "Ain't She Sweet". Re-issues would replace it with their more familiar theme.
Ham Kinsey, who played a prisoner, later became Stan Laurel's stand-in. Baldwin Cooke, another prisoner here, and his wife Alice played in a three-act with Stan in England.
As the prison governor James Finlayson addresses the prison guard as "Sandford," the real name of the actor playing him, Tiny Sandford.