This film's earliest documented telecast in the New York City area occurred Thursday 14 August 1947 on WCBS (Channel 2). It first aired in Cleveland Thursday 22 July 1948 on WEWS (Channel 5), in Boston Wednesday 11 August 1948 on WBZ (Channel 4), in Los Angeles Sunday 24 April 1949 on KTSL (Channel 5), and in San Francisco, Wednesday 27 July 1949 on KPIX (Channel 5). All these telecasts were in B&W, of course.
According to a news article from January 22, 1936, producer George A. Hirliman wanted to make this an all-black-cast production, with Nina Mae McKinney in the lead role.
George A. Hirliman wanted Lupita Tovar to appear in this film, but she ended up only appearing in the alternate language version, El capitán Tormenta (1936).
Normally hairy-chested George Houston was forced to submit to a complete body wax before he could appear in the bare-chested sequences. However, because of production delays, some grow-back was already in progress by the time the scenes were actually filmed.
A pig that featured prominently in the film was slaughtered and fed to the crew when filming wrapped.