Although he mostly played domestics, ne'er do wells and other racially stereotyped roles, Willie Best (seen here as the chicken-snatching Apollo) was one of Hollywood's busiest character actors, whom Bob Hope once called one of the finest performers he ever worked with.
This is the first film series from Warner Bros. specifically aimed at the youth market. The studio hoped it would compete with MGM's highly successful "Andy Hardy" series. But, after the fourth and last "Nancy Drew" film, Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (1939), Bonita Granville would move to MGM where she would play "Kay Wilson", Andy Hardy's college girlfriend in two films of that series: Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble (1944) and Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946).
The third of four "Nancy Drew" films released by Warner Bros. from 1938 to 1939.
The crop-duster airplane used in the film is a Stearman C-3B, registration NC6491. 136 of this variant were built from 1927-29. MSRP was $8,970 (about $130,000 in 2018).