While visiting his friend George Raft on the set, Bugsy Siegel was introduced to Virginia Hill. In the scene where Raft gets into a brawl with Barton MacLane, Hill appears as the hat-check girl to whom Raft gives a piece of leg from a smashed chair as he leaves the nightclub. The brawl scene and Bugsy Siegel's first meeting with Virginia Hill on the gas station movie set are recreated in Bugsy (1991).
A fistfight developed on the set between stars Edward G. Robinson and George Raft after Raft spun Robinson around too hard for a scene.
Very similar plot to the Howard Hawks' film staring Edward G. Robinson titled Tiger Shark (1932), except that Robinson, instead of having a limp, has a hook hand. Both films have the men after the same woman, and she prefers the young man, here played by George Raft; in Tiger Shark it's Richard Arlen.