During a scene that called for Shirley Temple to hold a tea party in a barn, a mule in the barn began eating the sugar cubes on the table. Director Henry Hathaway recalled, "Shirley was irritated and tried to shoo him away. Then this mule got irritated. He turned around, and with his two back legs he hauled off at her with a kick. Shirley ducked and he missed, but instead of stopping or running away, she strode over and kicked the mule back."
Shirley Temple later chose Delmar Watson to play Peter in Heidi (1937) because she had worked with him in this film.
Director Henry Hathaway tried to get Paramount to sign Shirley Temple to a long-term contract after he recognized her talent, but the studio released her after this picture and she went on to sign with 20th Century-Fox.
The landslide sequence includes a lot of archive footage from the silent version, To the Last Man (1923), filmed 10 years earlier.
First of three films that Randolph Scott and Shirley Temple both appeared in, the other two being Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938) and Susannah of the Mounties (1939).