Re-titled 'Buffalo Stampede' by Favorite Films for its 1950 re-release, this title was often shown in tandem with the re-release of Born to the West (1937), re-titled "Hell Town".
A remake of The Thundering Herd (1925) starring Jack Holt.
Both Noah Beery. and Raymond Hatton appeared in that film. Scenes from it were used
in this version and required Randolph Scott to have a pencil-thin mustache to match Holt.
All scenes involving buffalo, and the Native-American attack on the wagons, as well as a considerable amount of other footage, were lifted from The Thundering Herd (1925) ), and when reprinted and projected at the faster sound speed, do not match up well with the freshly filmed footage.
The scenes of the buffalo herds were filmed in Yellowstone National Park.
This is one of 20 Zane Grey stories, filmed by Paramount in the 1930s, which it sold to Favorite Films for re-release, circa 1950-52. The failure of Paramount, 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.