During a scene that called for Shirley Temple to hold a tea party in a barn, a mule in the barn began eating the sugar cubes on the table. Director Henry Hathaway recalled, "Shirley was irritated and tried to shoo him away. Then this mule got irritated. He turned around, and with his two back legs he hauled off at her with a kick. Shirley ducked and he missed, but instead of stopping or running away, she strode over and kicked the mule back."
Shirley Temple later chose Delmar Watson to play Peter in Heidi (1937) because she had worked with him in this film.
First of three films that Randolph Scott and Shirley Temple both appeared in, the other two being Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938) and Susannah of the Mounties (1939).
The landslide sequence includes a lot of archive footage from the silent version, To the Last Man (1923), filmed 10 years earlier.
This is one of 20 Zane Grey stories, filmed by Paramount in the 1930s, that it sold to Favorite Films for re-release, circa 1950-52. The failure of Paramount, the original copyright holder, to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into the public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies. Therefore, To the Last Man (1933) is available for free download at the Internet Archive.