Trivia

As a result of a PTA complaint, this was the last gangster angle picture made by The Dead End Kids.

The fifth of seven movies featuring The Dead End Kids.

This was one of the first films that Broadway columnist-turned-film producer/writer Mark Hellinger worked on at the B-picture unit of Warner Brothers. Hellinger was under close scrutiny by Hollywood columnists to observe how he would perform, and they jokingly referred to this film as "Hellinger's Kitchen".

Ronald Reagan's next film after this was another one with the Dead End Kids, Angels Wash Their Faces (1939).

After being fired from the set of Hell's Kitchen (1939) for slapping a junior member of the cast who had mocked his accent, director Ewald André Dupont spent most of the 1940s in Hollywood as a talent agent and publicist.