The story revolves around the feud between the Hawkins & Morrison families, not unlike the Hatfield & McCoy feud, with whom they share initials.
The fifth and final time James Stewart and James Best would work together. The others were featured films Winchester '73 (1950), The Mountain Road (1960), Shenandoah (1965), and Firecreek (1968).
James Stewart and Lew Ayres both appeared in The Ice Follies Of 1939 (1939).