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; its earliest documented telecasts took place in Denver Friday 1 May 1959 on KBTV (Channel 9) and in Seattle Monday 20 July 1959 on KIRO (Channel 7); it was released on DVD 1 November 2016 as part of the Universal Vault Series.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on
March 5, 1945 with Akim Tamiroff reprising his film role.
Lamour's raised-in-China character is named Hilton. Presumably this is a hat-tip to James Hilton, whose own set-in-China novel, "Lost Horizon," had been filmed two years earlier.
Joleen King's debut.
Apparently because of contractual commitments Dorothy Lamour receives top billing, even though John Howard, with far more screen time and the one around whom the entire story revolves, is relegated to third billing, even though he had been a leading man at Paramount for the past four years and was simultaneously starring in Paramount's Bulldog Drummond series at the same time this one was filmed.
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