Rancho Notorious

Cinematographer Hal Mohr, who had previously photographed Marlene Dietrich in "Destry Rides Again" (1939), attempted to resign from the film because of 50-year-old Dietrich's insistence that he use lighting to make her look much younger than she actually was, and Mohr didn't think it was possible.

When Haskell and Fairmont are in the cell and talking about gambling. One of them refers to a Chuck-a-Luck "Wheel". There is no wheel in Chuck-a-Luck. Chuck-a-Luck is a dice game, it's played with three dice usually contained in an hour-glass shaped rotatable cage. Bets are placed as to what number will come up on gaming table. The game played in the film involves a wheel with pegs in between representations of all the possible 3-dice rolls, which is the wheel that is both talked and sung about. This is a variation on the original game called Big Six Wheel. Because of the distribution of the combinations, the house advantage or edge for this wheel is greater than for chuck-a-luck.

As the title song plays and Bill Lee sings the lyric "... and a man of steel ..." there are eleven names of supporting actors on screen, and the name in the central position is George Reeves, soon to be cast as The Man of Steel in *The Adventures of Superman* (1952-58).

Edited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Fatale beauté (1994)