Some enterprising exhibitors billed the recently married Ava Gardner as "Mrs. Mickey Rooney" on the marquee.
Final appearance of Ernest Morrison (Scruno) as an active member of the East Side Gang. Morrison would later appear in Follow the Leader (1944), but only in a flashback sequence using archive footage from Flying with Music (1942).
Shot in six days.
Fourteenth of 22 "East Side Kids" films from Monogram Pictures, released from 1940 to 1945. This series would morph into The Bowery Boys films, of which 48 were released by Monogram and its successor Allied Artists from 1946 to 1958.