The original play On the Spot premiered on Broadway at the Forrest Theatre on October 29, 1930, and ran for 167 performances. Anna May Wong starred (she reprises her role in the film), and the cast included Glenda Farrell, Arthur Vinton and Crane Wilbur.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since; its earliest documented telecast took place in Minneapolis Saturday 11 July 1959 on WTCN (Channel 11).
A film noir with no gun shot.
22 years later, three cast members from this film, Anna May Wong, Lloyd Nolan and Anthony Quinn, would all co-star in PORTRAIT IN BLACK (1960), which would be Wong's final film.