The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into 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 of the film.
The earliest documented telecasts of this film took place in Fort Worth on 4/4/49 on WBAP (Channel 5), in Cincinnati 9/19/49 on WCPO (Channel 7), in Atlanta 10/21/49 on WSB (Channel 8), in Los Angeles 10/26/49 on KTSL (Channel 2) and again 12/4/49 on KECA (Channel 7), in Philadelphia 10/31/49 on WFIL (Channel 6), and in New York City 7/17/50 on WOR (Channel 9).
Malgrove's house is the same house as Juanita's house in The Desert Trail (1935) and as the Matlock ranch-house in The Star Packer (1934).
Carruthers and Sherriff Withers jump into the same river at the same point as Weston and Spike Barton do in The Man from Utah (1934).
Although John Wayne appears in the first scene, he doesn't speak a line until almost fifteen minutes in.