Lionel Atwill spends almost the entire film in a wheelchair after his attempted murder. He did the same as Ivan Igor in Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) the year before. In both films Atwill's enemies tried to kill him but failed.
Billed as George Hayes, Gabby Hayes, who plays the loyal Joe Wilson, is almost unrecognizable without his grizzled beard, cowboy hat, and "yer durn tootin'" dialog. Off screen Hayes was much more like Wilson, educated and well spoken, than like the sidekicks he had been playing in western movies for several years.
Dawson's beggars' organization is reminiscent of Clopin's development of the Beggars Guild in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". Where Dawson invested the members' money to turn a profit, Clopin used the money to pay off the police.
The earliest documented telecasts of this film took place in Cincinnati Monday 12 December 1949 on WKRC (Channel 11), and in New York City Sunday 14 May 1950 on WPIX (Channel 11).
According to studio publicity materials for this picture, director Phil Rosen employed 150 disabled men for this film.