Trivia

Geoduck and Crowbar make references to Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Director Charles Barton and, especially, writer John Grant are veterans of the Abbott and Costello features, which also were being made at Universal.

An animated trailer was created for this film by Walter Lantz.

Ma Kettle was born in 1900.

His direction of the second unit became the final feature credit for action specialist B. Reeves Eason.

Fifth of eight films in which Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride portrayed Ma and Pa Kettle.