Costars Richard Dix and David Landau both died on September 20th (Dix in 1949, Landau in 1935), both aged 56.
According to a contemporary article in The Hollywood Reporter, a studio stenographer, Mollie Herman, won $50 (over $1,160 in 2023) for coming up with the release title for this film.
The beginning of the picture features headline stories about the second heavyweight championship boxing match between Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey. The bout occurred on September 22, 1927 at Soldier Field in Chicago. Tunney won a 10-round unanimous decision in the match that was called "The Long Count Fight."
A rare example of a four-letter word slipping past the sensitive ears of the Hays Office in the pre-Code era: during the first bar scene, a drunk Foster describes his boss as "a shit-faced mongrel." The closed-captioning confirms this.