One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
When this picture was in production in November 1933, a lynching scene was originally included in Adela Rogers St. John's screenplay. Paramount executives reviewing her work concluded a modern-day lynching would never happen in California and cut the scene. Before the end of the month a double lynching of the confessed kidnappers/slayers of department store-scion Brooke Hart in San Jose would indeed take place.