Tom Kennedy, who plays the dumb cop Gahagan in this film, repeated the role in all the subsequent Torchy Blane series films. He was the only actor to appear in all nine Torchy Blane movies.
Jane Wyman who played Dixie, the hatcheck girl in this film, would go on to play Torchy Blane herself in the final installment in the series Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite (1939).
The film was based on the MacBride and Kennedy stories by Frederick Nebel. Kennedy, originally a drunken reporter, was rewritten for the brash but sober female reporter Torchy Blane.
The first of nine "Torchy Blane" films from Warner Brothers released from 1937 to 1939. Glenda Farrell played Torchy in seven of the nine films.
Bess Flowers,.who appears here in an uncredited walk-on as "nurse," was known as "The Queen of the Hollywood Extras," whose 41 year film career included appearances in more than 1,000 movies and television shows. At the time of her death, Flowers was a resident of the charitable Motion Picture Country Home and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California.