Producer Harry Sherman, making Paramount' s "Stagecoach War", had more than half the riders in Hollywood on location near Kernville , CA. These included Cliff Parkinson, Art Felix, Clem Fuller and Dean Spencer, all known as "dead falls". They are men who can fall from a, horse and make it appear that they've been shot, a feat that sounds easy but is really difficult to perform. They get $25 a fail. Sherman declared that this quartet of riders compose more than one-third of the cowboys in Hollywood who can perform the feat without hobbling the horse.
The thirtieth of sixty-six Hopalong Cassidy movies.
This is one of 54 Hopalong Cassidy features produced by Harry Sherman, initially distributed by Paramount Pictures from 1935-1941, and then by United Artists 1942-1944, which were purchased by their star William Boyd for nationally syndicated television presentation beginning in 1948 and continuing thereafter for many years, as a result of their phenomenal success. Each feature was re-edited to 54 minutes so as to comfortably fit into a 60 minute time slot, with six minutes for commercials. It was not until 50 years later that, with the cooperation of Mrs. Boyd. i.e. Grace Bradley, that they were finally restored to their original length with their original opening and closing credits intact.
Last time Britt Wood played Hoppy's sidekick Speedy McGinnis. He would be in another Hoppy movie after this one but as a different character.