The Film
- Box Office Bomb: The film failed to recoup over $100,000 of its budget (in 1949 dollars).
- Playing Against Type: Porter Hall, whose Wikipedia page describes him as being best-known for his "villains or comedic incompetent characters," plays Nub Gowrie, a menacing yet honorable hillbilly who displays powerful grief and determination in the aftermath of his favorite son's murder.
- Troubled Production: Producer Louis B. Mayer and the film's star, Juano Hernandez, didn’t get along during the filming because, like his character, Hernandez was a black man who refused to treat white men as his superiors. This rubbed Mayer the wrong way, with him also being unimpressed with the final cut and taking minimal steps to distribute the film widely.
