Reissued by Favorite Films as "The Furious Phony".
This film was first purchased for telecast in New York City in mid-1948 by WPIX (Channel 11), as part of their newly acquired series of three dozen Hal Roach feature film productions, originally released theatrically between 1931 and 1943, and now being syndicated for television broadcast by Regal Television Pictures. However, no record of WPIX ever showing the film has been found. Its earliest documented telecasts took place in Chicago Thursday 31 March 1949 on WBKB (Channel 4), in New York City on WJZ (Channel 7), who picked up the Roach package after WPIX was finished with it, on Tuesday 16 August 1949, and in Detroit Monday 28 November 1949 on WXYZ (Channel 7).
This film represents one of a small handful of American films which featured the word Hitler or Hitler's, and both referencing Adolf Hitler, in their titles and were made around the time of the Second World War. These movies include Hitler's Children (1943); Hitler's Madman (1943) aka Hitler's Hangman; Hitler: Dead or Alive (1942); The Hitler Gang (1944) aka Hitler & co.; the documentary short, Hitler Lives (1945); The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler (1943); Hitler's Women aka Women in Bondage (1943); the comic short, The Devil with Hitler (1942) and Hitler: Beast of Berlin (1939).
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