Trivia

Humphrey Bogart was originally cast in this film, but George Raft refused to work with him.

A fistfight developed on the set between stars Edward G. Robinson and George Raft after Raft spun Robinson around too hard for a scene.

While visiting his friend George Raft on the set, Bugsy Siegel was introduced to Virginia Hill. In the scene where Raft gets into a brawl with Barton MacLane, Hill appears as the hat-check girl to whom Raft gives a piece of leg from a smashed chair as he leaves the nightclub. The brawl scene and Bugsy Siegel's first meeting with Virginia Hill on the gas station movie set are recreated in Bugsy (1991).

To star in this film, George Raft turned down the role of Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon (1941).

Very similar plot to the Howard Hawks' film staring Edward G. Robinson titled Tiger Shark (1932), except that Robinson, instead of having a limp, has a hook hand. Both films have the men after the same woman, and she prefers the young man, here played by George Raft; in Tiger Shark it's Richard Arlen.