Loretta Young was pregnant with her son Christopher Lewis during shooting and was told by her doctor to take it easy because of all the horseback riding she had to do.
The town of Payneville was erected at the Iverson Ranch in Chatsworth, California. Gary Cooper had a Western town built at the movie ranch for this film, which was then re-used in other films during the next decade and became a fixture in "B" westerns.
Gary Cooper's first effort as an independent producer through his company Cinema Artists Corp. It was the only feature film he produced during his movie career.
This movie is unusual in that star/producer Gary Cooper mercilessly spoofs his own slow-talking cowboy persona.
The belief that Jarrad's sidekick is named "Roscoe" is a then-topical joke; the word was popular slang for a gun, most notably in the famous line "Gimme the roscoe!" from The Glass Key (1942).