Gene Tierney was a last-minute replacement for Barbara Stanwyck, who became unavailable shortly before filming began.
Alfred Newman's title music was originally composed for, and used in, John Ford's film Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), made two years earlier.
In 1950, 20th Century Fox reissued this film on a bill with Guadalcanal Diary (1943) and The Purple Heart (1944).
When Sam and Belle Starr are shown firing at Union troops from the rocks, they are using "trapdoor" Springfield rifles which conform to the period in which the movie is set.