The Press and Pictorial Department of the Office of Censorship disapproved this picture for export because of its bad portrayal of America, citing the mugging scene, a rich boy participating in crime for excitement and poor police work.
The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.
While discussing the negative effect the muggings are having on the neighborhood, Muggs complains that people will be "calling us the East Side Kids." That is , of course, how they were billed in this and many other films.
Bernard Gorcey has a small bit as the messenger who delivers a telegram to the Courtland house. In real life he was Leo Gorcey's father, and had a recurring part as Louie Dombrowsky, the owner of Louie's Sweet Shoppe, in the Bowery Boys series, which featured most the same cast of "boys".