When aired on Turner Classic Movies network (TCM), it airs under its original title, Larceny, Inc (1942) [Other titles used in the US are "The Night Before Christmas" and "A Night Before Christmas"].
Woody Allen uses the same basic plot for Small Time Crooks (2000). No credit was given to this film.
The play opened in New York City, New York, USA on 10 April 1941 and closed 27 April 1941 after 22 performances. The opening cast included Shelley Winters.
After Jug gives up a home run in the prison baseball game, he says, "My finger slipped" and raises his middle finger to Pressure.
One of five movies in which Edward G. Robinson and Edward Brophy worked together. The others are The Whole Town's Talking (1935), The Last Gangster (1937), A Slight Case of Murder (1938), and their final film together is Destroyer (1943).