While Bette Davis praised Edward G. Robinson as a performer and as a person, she was repulsed by having to kiss him.
Remade as The Wagons Roll at Night (1941) with Humphrey Bogart in a circus setting, and with Elvis Presley as Kid Galahad (1962).
The second of five films with Robinson and Bogart including Bullets or Ballots (1936), The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938), Brother Orchid (1940), and Key Largo (1948).
Renamed The Battling Bellhop for TV distribution so as not to be confused with the Elvis Presley version.
Jane Bryan plays Edward G. Robinson's sister in this film. A year later she played his daughter in A Slight Case of Murder (1938).