Anecdotes

The Broadway production of "Heat Lighning" opened at the Booth Theater (New York City) on September 15, 1933 and ran for 44 performances.

Jane Wyman was originally cast as the female lead in this film.

The "new" car George buys is a 1937 Buick Special coupe.

U.S. Highway 99 ran for 1,600 miles from the Mexican border in California to the Canadian border in Washington state. By the 1970s it had been replaced by the completion of Interstate 5.

This film's earliest documented telecast took place in Tucson Saturday 22 September 1956 on KDWI (Channel 9); it first aired in Albuquerque Thursday 23 October 1956 on KOAT (Channel 7), in Salt Lake City Saturday 27 October 1956 on KUTV (Channel 2), in Cincinnati Monday 12 November 1956 on WKRC (Channel 12), in Indianapolis Thursday 15 November 1956 on WTTV (Channel 10), in New York City Sunday 18 November 1956 on WABD (Channel 5), in San Francisco Tuesday 11 December 1956 on KPIX (Channel 5), and in Salt Lake City Wednesday 2 January 1957 on KUTV (Channel 2).