This film bombed at the box office, losing RKO $550,000 ($7.8M in 2019) according to studio records.
Filmed in 1947 but not released until two years later due to the chaos caused by RKO's taker over by Howard Hughes.
Martha Hyer was stricken with appendicitis while on location in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and had to be rushed to a hospital.
According to the date on the calendar Sheriff Gardner has, which he said he received two days prior, the film begins on September 30, 1893, a Saturday.