Although June Lang played the romantic ingénue, she never worked with Laurel & Hardy on this picture and, in fact, never met them.
This is the second of three forays with a "foreign" army for 'Stan Laurel' and 'Oliver Hardy'. They had been in the French Foreign Legion in Beau Hunks (1931) and would return to the Legion in The Flying Deuces (1939).
Barry Norton was the original juvenile lead, but according to William Janney, who replaced him, Norton's professionalism was his undoing. He knew his lines and cues perfectly, but when Laurel & Hardy began ad-libbing, Norton fell apart and couldn't keep up. Janney was brought in, and most of the scenes were re-written to keep Janney from falling into the same trap as Norton. Janney and "the boys" ultimately shared very few scenes.