Martin Scorsese owned the only remaining 35mm print and authorized its use for the film's upgraded new print in 2013.
The source subject - the 1933 incident in San Jose - was also covered in Fritz Lang's film Fury (1936).
After the film flopped on its initial release, it was re-released under the more lurid title of "Try and Get Me!".
Cy Endfield was not the only member of the cast and crew to fall foul of the House Un-American Activities Commission. Lloyd Bridges was also hauled up before them but managed to keep his career going by naming names.
This was Cy Endfield's last American film before he was forced to decamp to the United Kingdom because of the Hollywood blacklist. Endfield managed to carve a reasonably successful career in Britain, directing such films as Hell Drivers (1957) and Zulu (1964).