Adapted from a Broadway play by Kenyon Nicholson and Charles Robinson. The original stage production opened at the Booth Theatre in New York on October 18, 1936 and ran for 105 performances. The opening night cast included John Alexander, Walter Baldwin, Hope Emerson, Matt McHugh and Dennie Moore.
Because of the hillbilly makeup, some of the hillbillies were not recognizable. However, three non-hillbilly cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not appear in the movie. These were (with their character names): Eddie Acuff (Roscoe Turner), Irving Bacon (Photographer) and George Ovey (Telegraph Operator).
In Feb. 1938, Warner Brothers distributed this film on a double bill with The Invisible Menace with Boris Karloff.
One of the films included in "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and how they got that way)" by Harry Medved and Randy Lowell.
The opening credits list "The Weaver Brothers and Elviry" as a group cast member, but the end credits lists the individual members of the group. The end credits were used in the IMDb listing.