The setting is suggested as New York City in the very beginning by a few notes of the song "The Sidewalks of New York". In the double exposure of newspaper headlines/marble games (pinball) being destroyed by sledgehammers, the destruction depicts true events. Pinball machines were declared illegal and destroyed in New York City at that time. They remained illegal there until 1976.
In the film, Pat O'Brien's character, Breezy, gives a bum $5 to get some groceries. In 2019, that would be equivalent in buying power, due to inflation, to $92. Bobby Jordan's character, Mickey, works at the paper as a photographer and makes $14 a week. That's equivalent in 2019 to $257 a week or $13K a year.
This film's earliest documented telecast took place in Tucson Tuesday 2 October 1956 on KDWI (Channel 9); it first aired in Albuquerque Monday 15 October 1956 on KOAT (Channel 7), in Bellingham WA Friday 2 November 1956 on KVOS (Channel 12), in Boston Tuesday 20 November 1956 on WBZ (Channel 4), and in Indianapolis Wednesday 5 June 1957 on WFBM (Channel 6).
Maris Wrixon's debut.
The last of 4 films that co-starred Pat O'Brien and Joan Blondell; the others were I've Got Your Number (1934), Back in Circulation (1937), and The Kid from Kokomo (1939). They later would both appear in The Phynx (1970).
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