In an interview, longtime Republic Pictures director Joseph Kane said that director George Sherman found working with star Vera Ralston so taxing that after this film was completed he quit Republic, where he had spent many years, because he thought he was going to be asked to direct another one of her pictures.
Vera Ralston was an ice-skating champion from Czechoslovakia who had made a few skating pictures for Republic. Studio chief Herbert J. Yates, who was also her boyfriend, decided she could be a star and put her into the lead in this film. Unfortunately, she spoke very little English and, according to longtime Republic director Joseph Kane, spoke all of her lines phonetically, without having any idea of what she was actually saying.