A sequel to John Ford's Judge Priest (1934), with Charles Winninger replacing Will Rogers as Judge Billy Priest and Stepin Fetchit reprising his role as Jeff Poindexter. Fetchit's film career essentially ended with this movie, until he briefly came out of retirement 19 years later.
The final production of John Ford's independent Argosy Films. The box office failure of the film contributed to Argosy's demise.
Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu said that this film was the main inspiration for his entire film career and that he watched it over and over as a child and used it, especially its morality and characterizations, as a model for the kind of films he wanted to make.