Tom Kennedy, who plays the dumb cop Gahagan in this film, repeated the role in all the subsequent Torchy Blane series films. He was the only actor to appear in all nine Torchy Blane movies.
Jane Wyman who played Dixie, the hatcheck girl in this film, would go on to play Torchy Blane herself in the final installment in the series Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite (1939).
The film was based on the McBride and Kennedy stories by Frederick Nebel. Kennedy, originally a drunken reporter, was rewritten for the brash but sober Blane.
The first of nine "Torchy Blane" films from Warner Brothers released from 1937 to 1939. Glenda Farrell played Torchy in seven of the nine films.
The year after this film was released Charlotte Wynters ("Marcia Friel") divorced her husband of 10 years, then married Barton MacLane ("Steve McBride") in 1939. They were married for 29 years, until his death.