The movie is based on the novel "The Big Town" by Ring Lardner.
Henry Morgan was paid $100,000 for appearing in the film which is about $1.46 million in 2021. His salary was the single most expensive item on the film's budget.
Exteriors for the film were shot in New York City; interiors were filmed at Charlie Chaplin's studio on La Brea in Hollywood (which was later home to A&M Records and became Jim Henson Studios in 2000).
The film was savaged by the critics and it did poorly at the box office. One of the comment cards submitted at a preview screening was particularly brutal, saying, "What belongs in the toilet shouldn't be exhibited first in a theater."
One of thirty feature films produced between 1946 and 1948, including nine from Enterprise Studios, whose financial failure resulted in their ownership being taken over by Bank of America for non-payment of loans, and subsequently sold to Mundus Television in 1954 for television broadcast at a reported total of $45 million.